You are interviewing for a MUNI magazine in a rubric on: "Interesting Journeys of Bachelor Students". Your audience are other students that want to read some inspiring stories, whether funny or serious. 

Profile story deadline (April 14th):

INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING A PROFILE STORY Spring 2024

Write an original profile story of 600+ words. This is going to be our first major assignment and will be part of the final evaluation. Therefore, pay attention to the following tips:

During the interview:

-          Observe and interpret the interviewee’s gestures, body language, and voice. Use colourful adjectives.

-          Explore inconsistencies in what your interviewee is telling you to get a deeper understanding of his/her thinking.

-          Focus on details. Show instead of telling: “Use all five senses when you interview someone. What are they wearing? Are they fiddling nervously with their pencil? Is there a chocolate smudge on their shirt? Is their hair stylishly spiked,“ (http://journalism-education.cubreporters.org/2010/08/how-to-write-profile-story.html). Remember that you are the reader’s eyes, ears, nose etc. and that your impressions and comments are important for the reader to be able to interpret the character of the interviewee.  

After the interview:

-          Write a profile story that tells an interesting story of your interviewee with obstacles on the way that s/he has (hopefully) overcome. Think about the transition that your interviewee has undergone: who was s/he at the beginning? Who is s/he now?

-          Use (online) dictionaries, Google tools and a spell checker to write grammatically correct sentences which contain rich and colourful vocabulary.

-          Avoid ending up with a list of your interviewee’s achievements, and little more. A profile story is not a CV. Identify your interviewee’s motivation for his/her actions.