Creative writing tutor: Looking at peoples lives - Jones Sally, Jones Amanda 2015

Biography

Use a non-fiction writing plan to write a biography.

PARAGRAPH 1

· Introduce the subject or the person you’re writing about.

PARAGRAPH 2, 3, 4...

· Make point one: the person’s childhood

· Make point two: his or her adult life

· Make point three: achievements he or she is remembered for.

· Organise your writing. Write the points in a logical order as they happened.

Conclusion

· Comment again about the main points. As the writer, you can add your opinions saying what you think.

Remember:

· Use connectives or conjunctions:

o and or but (to join compound sentences)

o or, so, if, when, while, after, before, because, unless, until, whereas, although (to join complex sentences)

o use pronouns - who, which, whose, what, that

o to link ideas use - firstly, later, therefore, on the other hand, at that moment, by this time, next, soon...

· Use linking words at the beginning of paragraphs

o further more, what is more, more than this, however.

· Use a range of sentences -simple, compound and complex sentences