Instructions:
Essay:Profile: 850-1000 words
We’ve been studying the genre of the Profile in The New Yorker. You have to write a essay, the style should be very like The New Yorker. Your editor has asked you to choose an intriguing, cosmopolitan student to be the subject of a student Profile. Use your research techniques (interviews, secondary research) to research your subject. As you saw the other writers do in the profiles we studied, find a theory of the person to illuminate them in a way the magazine’s readers would find appealing. Similarly, consider which of the organizational strategies you’ve seen other writers use might best suit your topic and audience.
Link1: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/postscript-david-bowie-1947-2016
Link2: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/postscript-carrie-fisher-1956-2016
Link3:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/the-impenetrable-genius-of-prince
So the essay(profile) should be The New Yorker style, there’s three links above, this essays style should be similar with those essays, that person’s information is attached below, it is not enough and it is ok to make up something in the essay.
Information
Name: Jie Mei
English name: Major
Born: 8/29/1999
Hobby: soccer
music
guitar
piano
He was born in Shanghai, moved to Canada when he’s 3 after 2 years moved back to shanghai.
His favorite soccer club is Chelsea
Best memory is 2012 Europe Semi-Final Chelsea beat Barcelona
He yelled really hard when Torres scored, which woke up his mother and neighbor, his neighbor gets really mad.
He always travel to London to watch Chelsea’s game
He loves music ,especially country music
He forced by his mother to learn piano
He loves guitar, learned by himself
He wrote a lot of songs while he travel around the world
Especially London, that’s where he got most of his idea( Cause he fly to london very often to watch Chelsea’s game.
He published a lot of songs on a app and it gets a lot of god feedback
He also has a lot of fans on Weibo (Chinese twitter)
His wisdom :Meet is Parting