Part I: Wrap up Informative Document Project

Hand in your project and Group Project Evaluation forms

Complete a Reflective Memo on Informative Document Project

Part II: Introduction to Profile project

Read the following profiles in The Leader:

• "Former member rejoins board of trustees," by Julia Kim (p. 1)
• "WRSE mixes year with new DJ's, equipment," by Tyree Miller (p. 20)

As a group, compose answers to the following questions:

• What is the dominant impression that each profile creates about its subject?
• Is the main point stated somewhere in the article? If so, where? If the dominant impression is implied, where does the impression become most evident? Underline words, phrases, sentences, and passages that develop and reinforce this dominant impression.
• What similarities or differences do you notice in the kinds of observations, examples, or illustrations that each writer uses to develop the profile? How do you account for these similarities and differences?
• How does each writer begin and end the profile? Evaluate the effectiveness of the introduction and conclusion of each profile?
• Both articles were published in the Leader, the student newspaper of Elmhurst College. To what extent does each article confirm community values and beliefs, challenge community values and identity, or some of each? 

Click here for some additional notes on the profile project. 

1. Discuss your possible profile topics with your writing group. Take turns sharing the lists each of you have developed for feedback and advice on who seem to be the most promising subjects for profiles. Ask your writing group to tell you which people are the most interesting to them., why, and what they would like to know about them. Write down their comments.
2. In order to clarify your purpose in writing, take fifteen minutes on your own to answer questions 1-5 for the exercise on pp. 244.
3. Following the guidelines for "Preparing for an Interview" on p. 245, draft some possible interview questions. Contact the subject of your profile to schedule an interview as soon as possible, and plan any necessary background research or reading, following the guidelines on pp. 244-246.

1. Finish reading Chapter 7 of The Call to Write.
2. Conduct your interview with the profile subject.

   The first draft of your profile will be due a week from today--be sure to plan accordingly.