Maybe you wonder what "a biography" actually is.
Well, here are some brief information about biography. Check it out!
What is "biography"?
Wikipedia said that a biography (bio) is a detailed description of a person's life. It entails more than basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death) - a biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
Cambridge dictionary gives us definition of biography as the life story of a person written by someone else. While autobiography is the life story of a person written by that person.
What is the tense we should use in writing biography?
Because we retell someone's life story in the past, so we use past tense. Sometime we use present tense to describe the person or things that still exist until now (when the biography is written) or general truth.
What is the content of a biography?
Content: title,
introduction/ general statement, biography, education, works, characters,
efforts, and very important/phenomenal/monumental events.
Title
You can give your biography text
with standard title such as “The Biography of Muhammad SAW”, “Muhammad SAW’s Biography”, “Muhammad SAW’s
Life” or with nonstandard/unique title such as “Muhammad SAW: Our Big Legend”, “
The Last Messenger.” You can create
your own title as creative as you can but as long as it is relevant with your
text.
Introduction/general
statement
Start your biography text with the
introduction of the figure (tokoh) you want to tell about. Who is he/she? The
simplest way is: tell his/her very popular contribution/position to the mass;
who is he in public’s eyes. Give one or two supporting sentences in this
paragraph.
Biography
In this part, you have to tell
his date and place of the figure’s (tokoh) birth and death. The birth info and
the death info can be written in one paragraph or separately in different
paragraph. You can give information of his/her closest or very important people
in his/her life.
Education
People grow become a successful
and popular person because of this thing: education. So, it is very important
to recite his/her educational background. Write briefly when, where, and
with/from whom he/she learned something (field of study).
Works
The best man in this world is the
one who give and share benefit to others. So does with your successful and
popular person that will you tell about. He/she had shared something good to
others. It can be formed of works (karya), jobs (pekerjaan), position
(jabatan), and contribution to environment around him/her (kontribusi). Write
all of them*) briefly, and you can give detail information for one or two of
them to emphasize his contribution in this world.
*)if there are all of them.
Characters
Everybody was born with his
talents and characters. Everybody also grow, shape and live with his/her
talents and characters. They shape his way of live and also his destiny. Tell
your character’s talents and characters in your biography text. It will give overview
to the readers who actually he/she is and how his/her way of live is.
Efforts
To gain our dream, we need an
effort or some efforts. Write your figure’s efforts so that he/she can make
his/her dreams come true.
Very
important/phenomenal/monumental events
In everybody’s life there must be
some important or phenomenal or monumental events that lead him/her to his/her
other efforts or destinies.
Content
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Title
Introduction/ general statement
Biography (date and
places of the born and death, special people around him/her)
Education
Works/positions/
contributions
Characters
Efforts
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Muhammad SAW’s Biography
Muhammad ibn Abdullah is the last prophet
in Islam. Allah asked Muhammad to bring Islam and Qur’an to the human in this
world.
Muhammad
SAW was born in Mecca in 970 C. His
parents are Abdullah ibn Abd Muthalib and
Aminah bint Wahab. He had a foster-mother named Halimah. After he became
totally orphaned at 6th age, he was under the care of his
grandfather and uncle; Abd Muthalib and Abu Thalib.
When he was a child, he became a shepherd. He looked
after someone’s sheeps. When he was in his teens, he accompanied his uncle on
trading journeys to Syria. He began to learn and get experience in
commercial trading. When he was adult, he
was believed to bring Khadijah’s trading to Syam and other places.
Muhammad was
a kind and honest person. His good characters were shaped from people
around him. Although the most people’s customs and behavior in his
environment (Mecca, Arabia) at that time were bad, he was surrounded by good
characterized people; his family. So that, he never spoiled by Jahiliyah
customs. Furthermore, in some stories, when he was a child he was met by angel
Jibreel. At that time Jibreel replace Muhammad’s heart with the pure one. The
pure heart made him different with others; he would not be spoiled with bad
characteristics and behaviors.
With
his pure heart and mind, he felt something wrong happened in his society. He
felt uncomfortable to live in such condition. So he began to meditation in Hira
cave to find the solution for his society. In this cave he was visited by
angel Jibreel. Jibreel asked him to recite the words from the God, Allah SWT.
Believing that Allah Swt had chosen him to be
His messenger, he began to preach Allah’s revelation till his death.
He passed away in June 8th, 632 in his 63rd
age. He was buried in Medina, Arabia. Muslims at that time missed him.
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You can see another example here.
Well that’s all the content you
can write in your biography text. Don’t forget to recite the source where you
get the information.
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