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Biography Inventor

Biography text 

is a detailed description or account of a person’s life and written by someone else, it is non fiction text. 

Function of Biography

◾To know a person’s story about his/her life outside of any accomplishments this person   may be known for.

 ◾ To give many information easily and educate the readers.

Characteristics of Biography

◾Biography Is not written by subject and always written in third person. In other words, the biographical text is not made by the person whose biography is being told, but is told by another person in a third person perspective.

◾Based on research. The text is made based on the facts of a character's life experience containing the story or story of a character in navigating his life, whether it is in the form of strengths, problems or weaknesses written by others so that they should be role models. 

◾Describes the person's surroundings (where, when and how the person lived). 

◾Use vivid language to narrate events. Clear language must be applied in a biographical text in order to avoid mistakes in the information presented.

Generic Structure

ORIENTATION (INTRODUCTION)

It is the opening paragraph, gives the readers the background information of the person. Usually contains a narrated biodata such as full name, place and date of birth.

EVENTS

In events, should be chronological order. This stage is part of the events or events experienced by the character. Contains an explanation of a story whether it is in the form of problem solving, career processes, and various events that have been experienced by a character that led to success.

RE-ORIENTATION (CLOSING)

It consist of conclusion or a comment or the writer. Tell about the echievement or the contribution of the person. In the closing, this section contains the writer's view of the character being narrated. This revision is optional, so it may or may not be present.

 Grammar and language features

Use of simple past tense. A simple form of events that occurred in the past. Using the second form of the verb (verb 2).

e.g. : 

-The family then moved to his stepfather's home country.

-He was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Temporal sequence (time sequence) and temporal conjunction (temporal conjunction). As a liaison between one sentence and another in the order of time.

e.g. : His parents separated when he was two years old.

Focus on Specific participants

Use of Action verbs. groups of words that describe something that the character is actively doing. 

e.g. : the family then moved to his stepfather's home country.

Types of biography

◾Short biography (focuses only on highlights of a person's life)

◾Long biography (about life and times of someone in a lot more detail)

Example

Thomas Alfa Edison

Inventor Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Thomas Edison was the youngest of seven children by Samuel and Nancy Edison. His father was a political activist who was exiled from Canada, while his mother was an accomplished school teacher and had a big influence in Thomas' early life.

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, his inventions included the telegraph, universal stock ticker, phonograph, the first commercial practical incandescent electric light bulb, alkaline storage battery and the kinetograph (camera for moving images).

During his lifetime, Edison received 1,093 US patents and filed for an additional 500 to 600 patents which were unsuccessful or abandoned. He exercised his first patent for the Electrographic Vote-Recorder on October 13, 1868, at the age of 21. His latest patent is for a device to hold objects during the electroplating process.

Although Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the first light bulb, he did invent technology that helped make it happen to the masses. Edison was encouraged to perfect a commercially practical and efficient incandescent light bulb after British inventor Humphry Davy invented the first early electric arc lamp in the early 1800's.

Thomas Edison died of diabetes complications on October 18, 1931, at his home, "Glenmont," in West Orange, New Jersey. He is 84 years old. By the time he died, he was one of the most famous and respected Americans in the world. Many communities and companies around the world dimmed their lights or briefly turned off their power to commemorate his death.