Writing around Reading
Write a passage based on the text in 120 words,summarizing the details about Annie Griffiths Belt’s life.Learn to use the writing techniques for biography which are provided below.Then you should write a passage about Belt’s biography in the space provided.
Writing Skill
What is a biography?
A biography is the story of a real person’s life(so not a fictional character)written by someone other than that person.It can be a page or several books long.Biographies explore the events in a person’s life and find meaning within them.
How to write a biography?
Normally,you should draw up an outline and fill in some details,in which you can decide which events in the subject’s life are the important ones,and which ones you will not focus on.You should pick these events based on your thesis statement.The following suggestions might be useful for you to start your writing:
1)Chronological.Go by the timeline,recounting each significant event in the order in which it happened.
2)Flashbacks.Describe a recent or current situation,then “flashback” to an earlier point in that person’s life.This is good for illustrating cause and effect,or how this lead to that.You can even go in complete reverse order;begin at the end,and work your way backwards.
3)Work.If the person’s life is closely tied to his or her career,you can break it up by job positions or works created.This can be tied to phases or cycles in the subject’s life.
4)Events.One idea is to start and end with events that mirror each other in some way.Maybe you can start with a photograph that the subject took when he was 15,and end off with a digital photograph that he designed at age 70.
Life of Annie Griffiths Belt
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