RLA: Feature Article

This is my feature article from RLA.

For this unit, we had to choose a topic, form a slant about it, research the topic, and produce a feature article, similar to those in a magazine. It was a joined unit between Health and RLA, as we're learning about wellness issues in Health recently as well.

My topic is sleep deprivation. I chose this one because I've noticed that my sleep schedule had been pushed back by a lot in the past weeks, and I had difficulty performing my best during school. I wanted a chance to explore on why this happens – I never intentionally slept late. After I chose this topic, I developed my slant. My slant is: Especially for students, sleep is the ultimate tool to “renew” the brain for an excelled academic performance during the day. I decided to focus on academic effects because being a student, most of my time is spent on school related things, so this was most connectable to me.

Now that the slant was created, I started to research. Using a school-trusted search engine WebPath Express, I compiled facts from a spectrum of different sources. This stage was the hardest for me, as a lot of my sources contained long articles that were tedious to read. However, I managed to plug in my earphones and read through everything, taking notes on any important facts I came across.

With all the research neatly sorted, I started working on my article. After the whole article was written and revised, I created my feature article on Pages. Thanks to Ms. Dowd's crash course, I understood the text elements that gives appeal to a feature article, and I knew what I should try to do. I chose a color scheme using a color palette from colourlovers.com, a font from dafont.com and laid out my article.
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This is my feature article: