“The Profile Essay” introduces students to writing informatively about a person, a group, a place, or an activity. Students base their essays on original field research, employing observation, interviews, and other evidence-gathering techniques to gain insight and develop ideas for their profile. (1000 word minimum 1250 word maximum 4 pages)
(My topic is about a Lamborghini super car salesman-I need someone with a experience like this and even better if you are familiar with Lamborghini super car.)
Researching a profile gives writers a great deal of information about their subject, enabling them to impart their special perspective or insight into its cultural significance. Profilers seek to enlighten and entertain their audience, creating a fascinating, and occasionally disconcerting, portrait of other people at work or at play. When reading the profiles that follow, ask yourself questions like these:
- What seems to be the writer’s main purpose?
- to inform readers about some aspect of everyday life that they rarely get to know intimately?
- to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at an intriguing or unusual activity?
- to surprise readers by presenting familiar subjects in unexpected ways?
- to bridge the distance between outsiders’ preconceptions and others’ experience?
- What does the author assume about the audience? that readers know nothing or very little about the subject?
- that their expectations will be challenged?
- that their interest will be piqued?
- that they will be intrigued by the writer’s ideas or what people do or say?