Shawn Said:

How should I write a biography on William Shakespeare for AP European History?

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These sites will provide all of the information that you will need for your assignment.


Shakespeare's Life & Times

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html

http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/

http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakesp…

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm#…

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William Shakespeare - Elizabethan England

http://www.midcoast.com.au/~pclifton/Sha…

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Timeline

Shakespeare Timeline describes the many chapters in Shakespeare's colorful life. From humble beginnings in Stratford to his marriage to the older Anne Hathaway and popular acclaim for his works, Shakespeare Timeline follows the life of literature's most famous playwright.


http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/ti…

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/…

Philip Said:

How to write a biography about my self?

We Answered:

Great question!!!
Well, first a biography is basically everything about yourself and your life, such as Barack Obama or Michael Jackson, they have a biography about themselves because they are famous of course and have done LOTS of things. What are you good at? And what have you done in life? Have you accomplished anything that you are VERY proud of? Just look inside your life, and basically put it all in a timeline.

Marsha Said:

How can I write a compelling biography?

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First, find a compelling individual. Famous doesn't necessarily mean compelling.

You need access to the specific details of a person's life as well. You'll need to decide what exactly makes a person compelling; is it things they overcame in their youth? Is it personal traits, tragedy, extraordinary skills?

You'll likely be able to do a much better job if you can identify with the particular individual.

Find someone who has some extraordinary skill / traits / events that you are able to identify with. Choose your starting point well. You don't have to begin with "So and so was born on the tenth of ....." You can begin with an event and describe it in detail. Perhaps a basketball player is shooting the winning shot of a game just as the buzzer sounds. A car narrowly avoids careering off a road. A midwife barely makes it to a home through a Northeaster and saves a young mother's life. Starting with a significant and exciting event can be a powerful technique.

Find more than one source of information. Reading a single book about an individual only provides you one author's viewpoint. Read about the area in which the person was raised. Read about historical events that happened while the person was growing up. Find out what shaped the person and molded them into who they are.

All of this takes time, but to write a compelling biography, you really need to know and understand the subject. You can't do this with input from only one author.

Read other biographies; not necessarily about your particular subject. What makes a good biography; what keeps you on the edge of your seat; what keeps you from wanting to put the book down? That's what style is about. What tools did they use to keep you entranced in the book?

So:

Find an interesting subject.

Learn about them from multiple sources; Movies, books, personal interviews, radio recordings, etc.

Try to identify with the subject.

Learn about multiple biographical styles and choose one, or elements of many that you would like to emulate.

Try to find an interesting way to tell the story; it doesn't need to be chronological.

Try to avoid common writing errors.

Have someone else read it and mark areas that are confusing, ambiguous or even boring. Make changes as necessary.

If something doesn't add to your story, get rid of it. Don't include content just to increase page count. Each word should have a purpose.

Tailor the language to the intended audience. A biography written for a scholarly audience will necessarily read differentlly from one written for the general public or for children.


Anyway, these are some of my thoughts. Hope they help.

Zachary Said:

How do you write a biography fast?

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I would use these sites. Just reword the sentences and switch some things around. Good luck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitle…

Carolyn Said:

How to write a summary for Billy the Kid biography?

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One idea:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Be-Br/…

Vanessa Said:

How would i write this biography?

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Start at the beginning...his infancy and childhood. Pick out a few interesting parts; do this for all the stages of his life. It doesn't really matter if one section is longer than the other; as we all know, lives get more interesting as you get older.

Anyway, to get it published, you'll need to find an agent who will read it, and get it edited and send it back, and then you can make some changes, and then send it back (and so on until you're happy with it). After that, they will find some publishers and then comes the wait (and the rejections... it happens to most people).

Good luck :)

Lester Said:

How do I write a short biography of a family member who passed away?

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Start with who he or she was in your life, why that person mattered to you in a few brief sentences. You will expand on them later.

Put in the usual factual items, when & where they were born & raised. Describe if you can what their life was growing up, especially if from a few generations back from yours. Describe what they did for a living and any special talents. (music, art, collector of anything?)

Do you remember when you first met them or had they always been in your life? Were there any special circumstances that brought you close together? Expand here on why you cared so much about them. Describe some of the memorable things you did together.

Then describe why they died (illness, accident) any special circumstances. Where you with them when they died?

Close with how you feel about their absence in your life and how they will be remembered in your heart.