CREATIVE NONFICTION Profile Writing.pptx

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1. WRITING PROFILE Creative Nonfiction Mrs. Aira Y. Aliwalas Teacher

2. Profile is a biography sketch, providing details of the person’s character, an overview of the person’s life story and highlights the person’s achievements and accomplishments. The profile write can profile a stranger or someone he/she knows well. He can also write a profile of someone ordinary, such as a teacher, a priest, or a police office, or someone extraordinary like Steve Jobs. PROFILE WRITING

3. Before writing a profile, each writer mush answer the question: “Who is this person?” If the writer knows the persons, the writer will rely on the memory, personal experience and observation to write a profile. PROFILE WRITING

4. If the writer does not know the person, the writer will conduct research and an interview, visit places where that person works, lives, socializes and observing the person in their daily life, reading books, articles and other materials on the person. PROFILE WRITING

5. A good profile includes the following: PROFILE WRITING DETAILS DIALOGUE STORYTELLING The writer will also use scene, summary and personal reflection. A good profile is also interesting, profiles someone new, encourages the reader to think more about the person. Profile writing INFORMS, EDUCATES and ENTERTAINS READERS. Some profiles have a serious and humorous tone.

6. CHARACTERISTRICS PROFILE WRITING FEW PAGES ONLY. PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES OR NEWSPAPERS AS AN ESSAY. CAN PROFILE SOMEONE ORDINARY OR EXTRAORDINARY. SOMETIMES, A PROFILE IS ABOUT A GOOD GUY. Examples: Amateur athlete who dreams about winning a good medal. A starving artist who desires to achieve fame and fortune. Writer aspires to write the next best seller. PROFILES SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO ACHIEVE OR ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING WORTHY.

7. EXAMPLE OF A PROFILE

8. GUIDE QUESTIONS IN WRITING PROFILE Why is the writer profiling the person? What is unique about the person? What is significant about the person? What are the person’s achievements and accomplishments? What obstacles or setbacks did the person have to overcome? Why is the person in the news or public consciousness? Does the writer likes the person? Dislikes the person? Why?

9. Types of Profiles

10. TYPES OF PROFILES CRADLE- TO- CURRENT PROFILE NICHE PROFILE PARAGRAPH PROFILE

11. TYPES OF PROFILE It is a profile about the person’s entire life, up to the present. The writer invests a great deal of time in researching, writing and fact checking. It is a profile that is 1, 000 words or less, and can be written in a short period of time. The writer composes a profile about someone in the news. This type of profile includes relevant information. This type of profile is brief, providing essential details about accomplishments and achievements, and the person’s significance to the story. It is a paragraph or two, and a part of a larger story. CRADLE-TO- CURRENT PROFILE PARAGRAPH PROFILE NICHE PROFILE

12. TIPS FOR WRITING A PROFILE Select a person to profile, then begin with an interesting question you want to answer. Before interviewing, have a list of open-ended questions you want to ask. After doing the research, decide on an approach. Always focus on what is significant or compelling. Show and tell your reader. Include dialogue. Include telling details. Don’t create one-dimensional portraits or profiles. Your subject is living an epic. Every story has a theme, a universal truth, shared meaning.

13. GOOD LUCK AND LET'S GET WRITING!