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Download Descriptive Writing of a Personal Role Model and Profile ... and more Study notes Painting in PDF only on Docsity! Appendix III: Descriptive Writing of a Personal Role Model and Profile Essay Note: This prompt includes these assignments: a Descriptive Writing of a Personal Role Model and a related Profile Essay. Audience: a general academic audience interested in your story and background Point of view: In both papers, you can utilize the first-person point of view. Part I: Descriptive Writing of a Personal Role Model Directions: Write a descriptive essay about someone who has been a personal role model for you. This person can be dead or alive. However, this person should be someone you have known personally and in some depth. This person can be a family member, friend, or mentor. 1) In describing this person, remember to use sensory details (touch, taste, sight, smell, and auditory). You want to describe the person’s appearance; the place(s) where you spent time together, such as a home, farm, garden, kitchen, machine shop, etc.; and activities, events, or holidays as occasions during which you were present with this person. 2) Use some dialogue between you and this person to convey aspect of your speech patterns. 3) Describe any key advice that this person gave you. 4) Create scenes in which you show you and this person together. Instead of describing this person with abstract terms, such as being loving, kind, or strong, show how your role model embodies these concepts through specific saying, ideologies, and actions. 5) All people are human. Therefore, show both your role model’s strengths and weaknesses. You do not have to reveal confidential or sensitive information in painting your person. However, your model should be well rounded in order to be interesting to readers and to have a story of universal value. 6) Use strong verbs, avoid clichés, and be creative in your writing. Word Count: 500 words (approximately 2 pages) Sources: No sources are necessary for this shorter writing. Part II: Profile Essay Directions: The Profile Essay requires that you choose as the subject an important person in your life and then write a description analysis of this subject. As part of this assignment, you will also conduct an interview with that person or someone who can talk about him or her. You will utilize your Descriptive Writing of a Personal Role Model as part of this larger essay. Your piece should be original, timely or of current interest, entertaining, and informative. Profile Essay Genre: This assignment is designed to prove your ability to combine personal knowledge and research with multi-modal elements. Find someone who interests you and capture this person in your writing. This essay, by its nature, must combine a description of obvious qualities of the subject (such as the build of a person) and the inward qualities of the subject (such as a description of a person as “witty”). In addition, even though perhaps implied in the essay as opposed to overtly stated, you should make the case with your textual presentation that the person profiled is “worth” the audience’s time and is indeed of some interest. In addition, you must assure your reader that the profile provides depth in a manner about your subject matter that other outside sources on the same topic might be unable to do. Word Count: 1,500 words, excluding Works Cited Page (approximately 6 pages) Sources: You need to conduct one personal interview, as well as include at least 3 other sources. This particular essay uses the interview as the primary source of information. Nonetheless, the interview will not be your only source of background information. You will need to rely on your observations and locate information from other sources to fill out your picture of your person profiled. These other sources could include newspapers, magazines, secondary interviews, journals, books, videos, photos, maps, etc., about people, events, or places that that your piece identifies and contextualizes to some extent. These sources do not necessarily have to be scholarly sources. Again, your goal will be not only to present the profile of a person, but also to reach a larger or universal truth that illustrates for readers the value of learning about this person. Smaller Unit Assignments: With this essay, include a list of 10 questions that you asked your interviewee. (You do not have to include the answers or transcription.) Essay Design: You will probably want to use a Microsoft Word document and imbed all multi-modal components within it. Layout and placement of text and multi-modal elements are important to consider in terms of the document’s readability and appearance. Details to Consider in Representing Yourself and Others: You can choose to use real names or pseudonyms, if you wish to provide anonymity. All other details you choose to include should be “real” in the way that good nonfiction is. Consent Form: Use the consent form on Blackboard for any interviews or film clips in which you video record or audio record people. Each person should be given his or her own consent form. Keep your consent forms. You will scan them and upload them to Blackboard with this assignment. Extra Credit: For extra credit, you may choose to upload either a tape-recorded or video-recorded copy of the interview with your materials.