Blog Entry # 2:

Writing your profile:

I did my profile on Pele. Pele was a huge soccer star in the 50's and 60's. Although I already new a lot about his accomplishments, there were still a lot of them I was unaware of. I learned more about at what points in Pele's life time he did certain things. The thing I learned and found the most interesting about Pele, was more of his personal life. I read a lot about how he grew up in a very poor family, and how how coming from that has turned him into a huge legacy.

While I was writing this profile I discovered that I write a lot better when I am writing about things that I enjoy. I really wanted to make the reader understand the impression I was trying to give off about Pele, so I wrote the paper one sentence at a time. That could be a good thing or a bad thing. I have done papers like this before, but I had never really heard of them as being called a "profile" or giving off a "dominant impression." It was kind of cool to really focus on the impression I wanted to give instead of just focusing on the facts.

I started writing my profile by just doing the introduction. I didn't do any research on that part because I wanted that part to be just about the things that I already knew. After that I started to read a lot of things that would back up what my introduction said. After I read a lot of different things, I started to write the paper. The one thing I think that hindered me a lot in the paper was that I over analyzed everything. Like I said, I literally wrote it one sentence at a time. I also felt like I left a lot about his life out of the paper, but I was trying to focus mainly on creating the impression. There is also a ton of information on him to write about, that it was very hard to keep it to 3 or 4 pages. One other thing I probably did wrong was all of my citing, I didn't really understand completely how to do that. Over all I think I accomplished what I wanted to, which was give off this impression of "greatness."