Writing Your Memoir-Autobiography A d m i n i s t r a t - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Writing Your Memoir-Autobiography

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• Fire Exits / Miscellaneous
• Rest Rooms
• Introductions:
• Rod Holley

Rod@merlin.ws

• Coaches
• Students:

 Name  PC & Word Experience?  Started or Plan to Write?

Administration

• Memoir vs Autobiography

 Hybrid: Memoir-Biography

• Autobiography Outline
• Memoir Outline
• Word Functions to Use

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Seminar Topics

Autobiography:

• Usually done for famous people
• Factual chronicle from birth to current
• Written in First Person narrative
• Formal language style

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Memoir vs Autobiography

Memoir:

• Story of a specific event or time period
• Facts, emotions and descriptive

imagery

• Written in First Person narrative
• Informal and vernacular language

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Memoir vs Autobiography

Hybrid-Autobiography:

• Stories from birth to current time
• Facts, emotions & descriptive imagery
• Written in First Person narrative
• Formal, informal & vernacular language
• Includes some images to support story

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Memoir vs Autobiography

Do Not’s:

• Do Not make yourself “perfect”
• Do Not write to satisfy others
• Do Not wait to start

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Memoir vs Autobiography

Do’s :

• Do tell the truth
• Do be as descriptive as possible
• Do relax & have fun with your memoires

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Autobiography

• Create an outline

 Use handout sample to get started

• Talk with others to get their perspectives
• Research your facts, if not known

 Do not spend too much research time

• Do not need to write in sequence
• Do relax & have fun with your memoires

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Memoir

• This is a non-fiction story
• Create an outline

 Use the Three Act structure  Use handout sample to get started

• Write about your feelings & emotions
• Include others reactions and emotions
• Be as descriptive as possible with people,

places, actions, reactions & emotions  Create an imagery for the reader

• Do relax & have fun with your memoires

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Hybrid Memoir-Autobiography

• Non-fiction stories of your life from birth

to the current time

• Create an outline
• State the facts but write about your

feelings & emotions

• Be as descriptive as possible with out

getting boring with too many details

• Create an imagery for all stories

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The Use of Images

• Images are not normally used

 Your document, do what you want

• Use images sparingly to support story

 Caption all images used

• Not a scrapbook or photo album
• Consider digital show or photo book in

addition to document

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Functions to Use in Word

• Decide on type styles, format & layout
• Modify Word defaults for consistency
• Automatically create Table of Content
• Automatically create Table of Figures
• Automatically create an Index

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An Alternative to Writing

Not part of this seminar but: Use a video camera, iPhone, etc. to record your stories