Travel Writing and Feature Writing

This week in my Media I class with Bettina Downing, we were learning about Feature Writing as well as going over our Travel Writing that was set last week for this week. To start off I shall discuss the Travel Writing assignment I was given. We were told to describe a place we know from our home country and describe it with all five senses in a way that it would attract readers. I chose a popular marketplace in Brunei that many people frequented to buy local food. I described it in detail with whatever memory I have of it to the best of my ability and I used an image of the market interior to help the reader.

On the Tuesday it was due, my class were tasked with peer-reviewing each other's works. I was to review Azeem's while mine was reviewed by Weronika and Luisa. Below is what they wrote under my document:

You created a very good in-depth descriptions that let the
reader feel like they were a part of it. The way you depicted it
was very captivating.
Very linear, there is no highlight of the story.

Weronika and Luisa, 14th Jan 2020

I felt very proud of this review, because I loved going to that market to purchase food there. Azeem's travel writing, however, was very short and was not that descriptive beyond sight and sound, so I gave him advice to expand it further with pictures and more sensory descriptions.

As for Feature Writing, we were taught that feature writing can be used in newspaper stories to give a perspective to a certain story by writing a short scenario of a fictional person in a real-life situation to put the readers in their shoes. We were tasked to create a piece of feature writing from some suggested topics or choose our own. For mine, I wrote about the advent of social media through the eyes of a young child who matures alongside the advancement of said technology. This work is due next week, but I have already completed most of the writing.