English

Fahd Alenezy

Instructor Linda Rogers

ENGL130EI-01

28 February 2014

Key Features List:

· Incredible subject: The subject would be about a surprising things. If the subject is normal, try to integrate a special person, location or incident. Thereby, your subject would look much more appealing.  

·           Basic information: Profiles should consist fair amount of details in order to make the profiles’ story or texts clear and more comprehendible for the audience.

·           Focusing on a specific aspect: A well written profile is the one that focus on a specific point. You should look for the information that just relate to your subject.

·          Effort on searching: You have to put effort on noting, detecting and getting connected to your subject. For instance, the subculture interview is a way of getting connected to your subject.

·          Alluring descriptions: Illustrating your details, and making them sensible. So the audience can get hooked within it.

 

Pick one of the two essays listed above.  Discuss how that essay does or does not do a decent job of profiling.  What does the writer do well, in terms of the key features?  Does not do well?

I picked to write about “Drawn to a Larger Scale” by Alex Williams. As the profile was more appealing to me. I think the author did a good job covering most of the key features, but I have comments on some points. He wrote about a tattoo artist named Scott Campbell, who pursues his passion in tattooing. He points out the incredible talent of Campbell, who became a famous tattoo artist without formal training, then was invited to an interesting site, and this is New York gallery, where only prestigious artists participate. Also, he gave an enormous background of Campbell from childhood till his current state. However, I think giving such background about Campbell’s background made the article become broader than narrowing it to a particular angle. The author was greatly interacting to Campbell’s work and story. Nevertheless, the article was pretty detailed, and made me as an audience imagine the incidents. Overall, I think the article was a very good profile.