English Composition › Section E · The profile › Topic E.1
The profile: subject, angle, background, description
A profile introduces readers to a person, place, group or thing through one revealing angle. Learning its parts, from subject and angle to background and description, shows how a few pages can make a subject feel truly known.
In this topic
- What a profile does
- Where the genre comes from
- Subject and angle
- Background, context and location
- Description: show and tell
- Voices in a profile
- Ways to organise a profile
- Worked example: an opening paragraph
- Worked example: one subject, three angles
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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