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How To Write Autobiography

• 971002516 Ken

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• Be easy but proper
• Purpose
• Length
• Achievement
• Statement Of Purpose
• Ending

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Purpose

• For Academy Your critical thinking skill,
  horizons, and academic ability.
• For Job Market Your passion, attitude, and
  experience.

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Length

• Better be 2 pages
• Illustrate how your growing background influenced
  and crafted your personality
• This background should also reveal your strong
  point

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Achievement

• Show what you have achieved
• Illustrate what you have learned from the
  experiences
• Show your personality and perspective from these
  experiences
• Take these experiences to enhance your quality
  and impress others

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Statement Of Purpose

• For Job Market Describe Career planning and work
  attitude, how you get along with colleagues and
  bosses. And how you are going to manage the new
  job
• For Academy Show your academic insight, depth,
  and how well you understand the field

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Ending

• Make your goal clear
• Try as much as possible to impress people
• Be honest and sincere
• Editing, editing, and still editing

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????A Regular Persons Flavored Autobiography

• 971002510 Pauline Tsai
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Start it like telling a story

• 1st and 2nd paragraphs
• Memorable points about ones hometown
• Family conditions and members

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His career oriented education experiences

• 3rd paragraph
• How is his work experience related to his
  learning experiences?
• How he managed to keep approaching both in
  industry and academic fields?

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Previous Work Experiences

• 4th 7th paragraphs
• After college? big titled company Coca-Cola
• A big turning point in his career life
• How he dealt with his concerns about changing
  work environment?

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The Outcome

• 8th 10th paragraphs
• In what way could he improve himself and how did
  he act to equip himself?
• What did he learn from working abroad?

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Autobiography Sample 2--John F. Nash

• 961002031 Heidi

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Purpose

• the occasion of winning the Nobel Prize
• be introduced to the world
• What would you as a reader expect to know?

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Outline

1. Opening
2. Family
3. Education
4. Academic career and achievements
5. Personal life
6. Ending

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1. Opening
unusual expression

• My beginning as a legally recognized individual
  occurred on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West
  Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital
  that no longer exists. Of course I can't
  consciously remember anything from the first two
  or three years of my life after birth. (And,
  also, one suspects, psychologically, that the
  earliest memories have become "memories of
  memories" and are comparable to traditional folk
  tales passed on by tellers and listeners from
  generation to generation.) But facts are
  available when direct memory fails for many
  circumstances.

colloquial
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2. Family

• 4 paragraphs father, mother, grandparents,
  sister
• focus origin, profession, important event

My father, for whom I was named, was an
electrical engineer and had come to Bluefield to
work for the electrical utility company there
which was and is the Appalachian Electric Power
Company. He was a veteran of WW1 and had served
in France as a lieutenant in the supply services
and consequently had not been in actual front
lines combat in the war. He was originally from
Texas and had obtained his B.S. degree in
electrical engineering from Texas Agricultural
and Mechanical (Texas A. and M.).
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3. Education

• Early education 4 paragraphs
• focus enlightenment

And my parents provided an encyclopedia,
Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, that I learned a
lot from by reading it as a child. And also there
were other books available from either our house
or the house of the grandparents that were of
educational value.
By the time I was a student in high school I was
reading the classic "Men of Mathematics" by E.T.
Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the
classic Fermat theorem about an integer
multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.
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3.Education

• Advanced education6 paragraphs
• focus turning points and reasons, process of
  developing his specialty

But while I was still at Carnegie I took one
elective course in "International Economics" and
as a result of that exposure to economic ideas
and problems, arrived at the idea that led to the
paper "The Bargaining Problem" which was later
published in Econometrical. And it was this idea
which in turn, when I was a graduate student at
Princeton, led to my interest in the game theory
studies there which had been stimulated by the
work of von Neumann and Morgenstern.
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4. Academic career and achievements

• 6 paragraphs
• focus mathematic problems he solved
• Transition
• Now I must arrive at the time of my change from
  scientific rationality of thinking into the
  delusional thinking characteristic of persons who
  are psychiatrically diagnosed as "schizophrenic"
  or "paranoid schizophrenic". But I will not
  really attempt to describe this long period of
  time but rather avoid embarrassment by simply
  omitting to give the details of truly personal
  type.

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5. Personal life

• 7 paragraphs
• focus chronicle of struggling with mental
  disturbances and his opinion about it

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6. Ending

• Statistically, it would seem improbable that any
  mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66,
  would be able through continued research efforts,
  to add much to his or her previous achievements.
  However I am still making the effort and it is
  conceivable that with the gap period of about 25
  years of partially deluded thinking providing a
  sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.
  Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve
  something of value through my current studies or
  with any new ideas that come in the future.

unique perceptive on his life and convey his
future vision
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Uniqueness

• not always write in chronological ways
• not starting with the years
• theme-centered