The essential genre features for news writing are bold headlines that attract attention, information that is widely appealed to an audience, and short sentences and paragraphs that are easy to read. The most common feature amongst all the subgenres we studied this week have to be the catchy and bold titles. The unique features of each of the subgenres are differences between what is considered commonly interesting to people, and what kind of information is being put out, if it’s easy to read or not.

For a news/fact reporting article, the author should provide correct information without their opinions getting in the way. The author should preface the story and give brief information in the beginning. In the following paragraphs, the author should string together the information and provide sources and/or interviews from where this information came from. And in the final paragraph, close with something that ties it all together, and reiterate the main points and parts of the story.