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Profile of Person

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Paper Instructions:

Use details of action, speech and setting to present a person you know.
Tips for Writing the 5a Profile of a Person

Choose someone who is extremely interesting (to you).
Use dialogue, setting, scenes and other details to show this person to your reader. Do not interview anyone. Do not write an "essay" about the person.
Do provide exposition—facts—about the person. Alongside telling, string illustrative “showing” moments together. Dialogue is one way to do this.
Start in the middle.
Put yourself in the piece to some extent. You may be present throughout. Or, you may be more of a wallflower. Do remember the piece is about them.
While you should base the story on an incident, know that the incident alone should not be the story: the character should be.
Neither write an ad for someone (i.e. they're great, they’re so wonderful, they're perfect), nor a rant (they're awful). Present your subject without judgment; take care, as bias can seep into your prose in small ways, such as the words you choose to use to label behaviour. Better to show than to tell anyway, so remove biased labels and let us see the person responding to a situation/incident.
The best profile pieces will try to show people's various sides. The oldest trick: set us up to see one side of a person (i.e. their selfishness), then present a moment that’s completely opposite. To edit: ask yourself, did I present more than one side of the person’s personality within the piece.

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