Profile writing is totally different from writing another kind of writings. Writing a profile can be about a person or anything but it should be written in a way that describes completely and includes every detail of that thing so that, the reader can visualize completely about that topic. One of the great written Profile is “The Last Stop” by Brian Cable. In his Profile, he wrote about the feeling he has about mortuaries, death and a complete description of a visit to Goodbody Mortuary.

According to me, the most descriptive passage in this profile was the 5th paragraph as It contains all the explanation an unknown person to have to know about Mr. Deaver. Brian wrote everything about Mr. Deaver starting from the tip of his hair on top up to the tip of his foot at the bottom. Brian used personification to attribute Mr. Deaver to a WWE wrestler “Undertaker” as he said ” I found the funeral director in the main lobby, adjacent to the reception room. Like most people, I had preconceptions about what an undertaker looked like. Mr. Deaver fulfilled my expectations, entirely. ” (B. Cable, The Last Stop, 2002). Then, Brian explained about his face, eyes, face, etc.

As we saw that in the profile – The Last Stop, how descriptively Brian told his readers about the structure of mortuary and about the funeral director. This proves that how strongly descriptive nature of profile affects your overall profile. This style of writing profiles helps us to let readers imagine everything about what we are writing which is not the same in the case of the visual profile because viewers can see.

Reference

Cable, B. (2002). The Last Stop. In R. B. Axelrod, & C. R. Cooper, The Concise Guide to Writing (3rd ed., pp. 57-60). New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin’s