profile interview

Assignment:
Write a profile (at least 1000 words) in which
you write about someone you have interviewed.
Format your to MLA standards.
What is a Profile?
A profile is an that focuses on a person, a group
of people, a place, or an event. Your should
focus on an intriguing person, place, or activity
in your community.
Choose one of the two following options:
(1) a brief profile of an event, a group, or an
activity observed once or twice; For profiles on
events or groups, you should interview
participants or members, incorporating their
responses into your final
(2) a brief profile of an individual based on one
or two interviews. For profiles on people, you
should observe your subject closely, and then
present what you have learned in a way that
both informs and engages readers.
Basic Information:

Magazines and newspapers are filled with
profiles. Unlike conventional news stories,
which report current events, profiles tell about
people, places, and activities. Some profiles
take us behind the scenes of familiar places,
giving us a glimpse of their inner workings.
Others introduce us to the exotic-peculiar
hobbies, unusual professions, bizarre
personalities. Still others probe the social,
political, and moral significance of our
institutions.
Profiles share many features with autobiography,
such as narrative, anecdote, description, and
dialogue. Yet profiles differ significantly from
autobiographv. Whereas an autobiographer reflects on a remembered personal experience, a profile writer synthesizes and presents newly acquired observations. In writing a profile, you practice the field research methods of observing, interviewing, and notetaking,
commonly used by investigative reporters, social
scientists, and naturalists. You also learn to analyze and synthesize the information you have collected.

A profile is a special kind of research project.
Profiles always involve visits: meeting with a
person or going to a place. Profile writers take
notes from observations and interviews and may
pick up reading materials at a place they are
profiling. They may even need to conduct
library research to gather information about the
history and specialized aspects of a place or an
activity.

Profiles:
• Are based on a writer’s newly acquired
observations.
• Take readers behind the scenes of familiar
places or introduce readers to unusual places
and people.
• Provide information while at the same time
arousing readers’ curiosity.
• Present scenes and people vividly and
concretely through description, action, and
dialogue.
• Reveal an attitude toward their subjects and offer-
-imnlicitly or eynlicitlv-an internretation
•Are based on a writer’s newly acquired
observations.
• Take readers behind the scenes of familiar
places or introduce readers to unusual places
and people.
• Provide information while at the same time
arousing readers’ curiosity.
• Present scenes and people vividly and
concretely through description, action, and
dialogue.
• Reveal an attitude toward their subjects and
offer-implicitly or explicitly-an interpretation
of them.
•Create a dominant impression of the subject.