From the object of writing, autobiographical composition is mainly about writing people. It's just that this character is himself, and the technique of writing people can be applied here. However, how to write an autobiographical composition is not as simple as writing a person.
First of all, autobiographical composition should write a real and living "I". This I should be the real self in life, not separated from the real self in life by a layer, which makes people feel that I am not you, or that I am not completely real you. This requires that the first requirement of writing autobiographical composition is to know yourself. Maybe you have to ask, can I not know myself? Actually, it is not. From birth to growth, each of us is shaping our own every step. In the tense life, in the unconscious growth, slowly, I may be less sensitive to my own growth, or feel less profound, or, due to the influence of the environment, I have become an unloved person and my understanding of myself has gradually deviated. The process of writing an autobiography is sometimes a process of finding and discovering yourself. You should follow a line to find yourself back, examine and analyze, and finally really know yourself. So, how can we express ourselves truly and vividly in the article? Let's think about it. Ask yourself: Who am I? What kind of person am I? What is my personality? What do I like and don't like? What is my ideal? What do I want my future to be like? Why do I have the above hobbies and ideas? Who influenced me more when I was growing up? What impressed me? ..... So ask, make a record, tidy up, and a relatively vacuum autobiographical composition will come out. Writing autobiographical compositions is much easier than writing by other writers. This is because you are writing about yourself, and there is no shortage of material and understanding. However, if there are more materials, it will face the problem of selecting materials and cutting. What kind of material is most suitable for writing this autobiographical article? What kind of material is more important and expressive? These all need serious consideration. Writing autobiographical composition, the most taboo is to write a running account, from a person's birth, year after year, where to live, where to go to school, where to play, such an article is not autobiographical. Your autobiography should have a distinct personality. I want to write closely with my own personality characteristics. Do I like quiet or activity? Introverted or extroverted? Do you like reading or sports? We should vividly express them with accurate examples in our writing.
Autobiographies also clearly convey their own physical characteristics to others, leaving an impression after reading them, and even recognizing you according to the description in the autobiography as soon as you see yourself. This also needs to use the skills of appearance description to write yourself well and live.
There should be facts in the autobiography. Autobiography is not simply about remembering people. It should reflect the growth and change experiences of characters and have a certain sense of time. Although we are still young, we have had the experience of growing up, which should be better reflected in our autobiography. For example, one author wrote that he is now an environmentalist and likes to take part in various environmental protection activities. Why is this? Because when I was a child, my uncle's behavior of picking up garbage deeply influenced me. Later, I strengthened this concept through the guidance of science and education films and teachers. Now, the deterioration of our living environment has deepened this understanding. Therefore, in order to protect the environment and make our life better, I actively participated in environmental protection activities such as tree planting, water-saving publicity and garbage sorting. So I am an environmentalist, and I will develop more people to join us in protecting the environment in the future. In this autobiography, the author describes the process of growing into an environmentalist through a lot of facts. Some personal experiences and real activities make the article very vivid and substantial.
Autobiographies sometimes have feelings and opinions about things, as well as experiences and lessons in life. But these are not the same as the direct lyricism and discussion in other literary and artistic works, but the narration contains emotion and reason, which makes readers feel, that is, indirectly reveals. For example, Autobiography of Lu Xun is an excellent model work with strong narrative.
Lu Xun's autobiography
I was born in 1880, a family named Zhou in Fucheng, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Father is a student; My mother surnamed Lu, a countryman, taught herself. So when I was young, I still had forty or fifty acres of paddy fields at home, and I was not very worried about my livelihood. But when I was 13 years old, my family suddenly changed a lot, and there was almost nothing left. I lived in a relative's house and was sometimes called a beggar, so I decided to go home. My father fell ill again and died in about three years. I gradually can't think about even a small tuition fee; My mother gave me some travelling expenses to teach me to go to a school that doesn't require tuition, because I have always refused to learn to be a health worker or a businessman, which are two paths that children of declining scholars in my hometown often take. At that time, I was 18 years old, so I traveled to Nanjing and was admitted to the naval academy, where I was assigned to an office. About half a year later, I went out to improve the mine road school to learn mining. After graduation, I was sent to study in Japan. But when I graduated from the preparatory school in Tokyo, I decided to study medicine. One of the reasons is that I know that new medicine is of great help to Japan's reform. So I entered Sendai Medical College and studied for two years. At this time of the Sino-Japanese War, I happened to see a Japanese detective being beheaded in the movie, so I thought it was useless for China to treat several people. There should be a wider movement ... to promote literature and art first. I gave up my student status and went to Tokyo with some friends to make some small plans, but they failed one after another. I tried to go to Germany again, but failed. Finally, because my mother and several others wanted me to have financial help, I returned to China, when I was 29 years old.
Upon my return to China, I worked as a chemistry and physiology teacher in a secondary normal school in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. I went out the next year and had nowhere to go. I wanted to compile in a bookstore, but I was turned down. But the revolution also happened. After the recovery of Shaoxing, I became the principal of a normal school. The revolutionary government was established in Nanjing, and the Minister of Education recruited me as a member of the Ministry and moved to Beijing. Later, he worked as a lecturer in Peking University, Normal University and China Literature Department of Women's Normal University. By 1926, several scholars had reported to the Duan government that I was not good and wanted to arrest me, so I fled to Xiamen and became a professor at Xiamen University with the help of my friend Lin Yutang. In February 65438, I went out to become a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, resigned in April, left Guangdong in September and lived in Shanghai all the time.
When I was studying abroad, I published several bad articles in magazines. My first novel was written in 19 18, and it was published in New Youth because a friend suggested money. At this time, the pseudonym of "Lu Xun" was used; I also often use other names to make a short discussion. Now there are two collections of short stories: Scream and Hesitation. A paper, a memoir, a prose poem and four short comments. Besides translation, there are A Brief History of China's Novels and Legends of Tang and Song Dynasties.
1930 May
In this autobiography, Lu Xun has distinct thoughts and feelings. For example, in the second paragraph, he wrote the reasons and actions for his decision to study medicine instead of literature, revealing the author's childlike innocence and patriotic feelings. For example, in the third paragraph, the description of work experience not only highlights the author's life characteristics and changes, but also indirectly reflects the author's political attitude and ideological tendency, enthusiastic support for the revolution and inadaptability to the warlord government. They are all expressed by the author in plain narrative language, so that readers can understand them.
Therefore, whether it is a simple autobiography full of thick lines or a long autobiography condensed with some important activities in life, insisting on the authenticity and narrative of autobiography writing will never deviate from the general direction of autobiography writing and will certainly achieve satisfactory results. (See Applied Writing, No.2, 1997, on the authenticity and narration of autobiographical writing).
The writing object of autobiography is oneself. In order to make the article more vivid, some special expressions can be adopted. For example, through the narration of others, write by others' mouth; Write an exclusive interview with a character under the guise of a reporter's interview; You can also write by chatting with readers; You can also pretend to write to a person and write in epistolary style; You can also use movie style to turn important scenes in your life into focal planes and describe these scenes ... In short, the person to be described in the article is yourself, depending on how you introduce it to the public.
Autobiography is an article describing the changing process of life and thought. It is an important material for party organizations to understand the applicants for joining the Party, and it is also one of the necessary materials for party organizations to study and absorb the new party member.
The basic format and content of personal autobiography are usually:
(1) Write "My autobiography" (or autobiography) in the center of the title;
(2) The text mainly includes personal growth experience (starting from primary school or 7 years old, going to school, holding a post, being rewarded and punished, what kind of progressive organization to join, whether there are related political and historical issues, etc. ), personal thought evolution (this is the main part, combined with growth experience to talk about some major political issues, etc. ) and the main family members and major social relations (I don't need to say that family members all know how to write, and major social relations are generally about.