Siti Suriani Othman2024-05-282024-05-282015Siti Suriani Othman. (2015). News Writing and Feature Writing, taught at the Communication Programme, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. JOURNAL OF CREATIVE WRITING | ISSN 2410-6259, 1(1), 46 - 58. Retrieved from https://journals.discinternational.org/index.php/jocw/article/view/322410-6259https://journals.discinternational.org/index.php/jocw/article/view/32https://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/7214Volume: 1 No: 1Teaching a writing subject is both fascinating and challenging. It is fascinating because the lecturer can engage with various ideas coming from students with different background and interests. It is also challenging to teach a subject that requires a lot of writing skills and other communication-related skills such as thinking skills. Students who are not well versed in the language used in the writing class might be left behind. In my Newswriting and Feature Writing course, it is even more challenging when half of the carry marks are given only when students get two of their articles published in the national Malaysian newspapers! The aim of the course is to familiarize students with news and feature writing. Newswriting is taught without compulsory publishing. For feature writing, however, it is compulsory for students to get their feature stories published either in English language newspapers in Malaysia, or in the Malay (native language) newspapers. In my class, most of the students chose the latter, with very few students able to get their works published in English. Although attempts are made, it seems the quality is not on a par with national newspaper writing. Those published in Malay language newspapers are able to publish in either the Letter to the Editor segment, or the Feature segment. For English newspapers, it is mainly in the Letter to the Editor section.en-USTeaching a writing subject is both fascinating and challenging, communication-related skills, the national Malaysian newspapers,, Malay language newspapersArticle465811