English

Hosin AlSafei

Linda Rogers

ENGL 130

28 February 2014

Profiling

1.      What are the key features? List the key features for profiles and define them in your own words.

a.       An interesting subject: describing general or wonderful events, people, or places in an attractive way.

b.      Any necessary background: involving notifications about the desired topic (person, place, incident)

c.       An interesting angle: focusing on a specific point about the topic.

d.      A firsthand account: the writer needs to detect and consume time in or with the desired subject in order to know and collect good information.

e.       Engaging details: the writer needs to involve data the grasp the readers and make them feel the characteristics.

2.      Discussing one of the essays.

I chose “Drawn to a larger Scale” by Alex Williams. It was good profile. Focusing on how tattooing changed subject’s life and took him to a lot of places, and introduced him to many famous people was fascinating. However, I think that he should have included the subject background in the beginning. It was a bit confusing for me in the first page. Then, when I read the second and third page, I figured out the profile.