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Enhancing Your Feature Article: Crafting Vivid Imagery and Strong Verbiage

This guide outlines essential revisions for your feature article to improve imagery, literary devices, and conclusion effectiveness. Identify two areas within your piece where stronger imagery is needed; add vivid images and underline them. Incorporate two literary devices such as simile or metaphor—bold and enlarge their font for visibility. Strengthen weak verbiage by substituting three dull verbs with dynamic alternatives; italicize these new verbs. Finally, refine your conclusion to leave a lasting impression on readers. Follow the provided resources for further guidance.

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Enhancing Your Feature Article: Crafting Vivid Imagery and Strong Verbiage

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  1. Feature Article 2nd Draft Revisions What to do

  2. Imagery • You need to add imagery to 2 different locations in your piece. Identify 2 areas that need stronger imagery, and make the changes. • UNDERLINE the images you add. (10 points each)

  3. Literary Devices • Choose 2 of the following literary devices to add: • Simile • Metaphor • Personification • Hyperbole • Bold and enlarge the font slightly these devices in your paper so I can see where you added them. (5 points each)

  4. Verbiage • It is important to use strong verbiage in your feature article. • Don’t settle for dull, bland verbs. • Select a paragraph that has weak verbiage. Add/exchange three strong verbs. • Italicize your strong verbs (5 points each) • Links to sites to help you with your verbiage. • http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ • http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/writingtips/preciseverbs.html

  5. Conclusion • Your conclusion will be what leaves a lasting impression with your reader, so don’t slop through it. • Go to the link below, and choose which type of conclusion you will use. (if you already have your conclusion that is fine.) • http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/organization/conclusions.html • Write or revise your concluding paragraph and post to the wiki. • I will post feedback on Infinite Campus. (25 points)

  6. Format • Be sure to check the format requirements posted on the Wiki. • Add your formatting today.

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