Describing Myself

 

 

Q1. How to Write about Myself?

There comes a time when you have to write for yourself for different situations. That is, writing for myself for different situations must be practiced upon. You must understand the basics of writing for yourself. Here, we have given a few different samples of myself writing Essays. I hope, it helps clear understanding.

Q2. Writing about yourself

1. Introduce yourself neatly and plainly

You have to sum up your entire life’s experience and achievements in a brief and specific manner. The most common questions that would come up in your mind instantly are like:

Ø  Who am I?

Ø  What is my background?

Ø  Academic background

Ø  Things that I like the most?

Ø  My struggles and achievements?

Ø  What are my strengths?

Ø  My future goals and tasks?

2. Have an interesting start. Be confidently looked:

Avoid starting with colloquial words like ‘myself or I myself Jai Parkash. Instead, clearly tell you're good name first. Do not say like, “My name is Jai Parkash” or I am Jai Parkash” Instead, clearly state your name and related it with your place of living. For example “Hailing from Mumbai, Mr. Jai Parkash is here”

3. Write about your achievements:

Relate all of your personal, achievements and extracurricular achievements in an easy and zero boring manner.

4. Write about your skills, strengths and weak points:

Strength and abilities are an essential part of your personality. You should be clear of your abilities and strengths. While at the same time describe your weakness as well. As weakness is the part of human nature, he who denies human weakness denies human nature.

5. Do not overproduce.

Don’t worry if you have less, but whatever you have, should be presented in a focused, clear, and engaging way. Be simple and less confusing in the choice of words.

Finally, try to avoid sensitive subjects like:

Ø  Gender

Ø  Religion

Ø  Political situation

Ø  Race and nationality

Ø  Income level

 

Q3. How to Start an Essay About Yourself & How to Structure It

Like many other essay types, this one would also have an introduction, body, conclusion. The introductory part may vary a lot depending on the scope of the essay. To capture attention, it could start with describing a life event or story defining your life/ personality, a certain belief or state of mind characterizing you. It could start with some basic notes on your biography or could provide some important context describing where you are now in life. You could share a personal vision, dream, life credo and efforts of pursuing it.

The main body would contain a deeper exploration/ dissection of the traits mentioned with more factual details and real-life examples confirming them. One could mention and explain which challenges, experiences, backgrounds exactly led to the evolution of these traits.

If this essay is part of professional or academic competition, the story should explore/ tell how your experience, interests, achievements, developed competencies, and personal traits qualify you for a given position and how obtaining this position is in line with your aspirations and goals.

In this kind of writing, it is particularly important making the conclusion strong and memorable. The conclusion should restate the idea, perhaps, less directly, that all your life and professional experience make you a good match for the targeted position but it should do much more than this, for instance, mention some relevant open questions regarding one’s biography, mention a long-sought dream that could be fulfilled, offer prophetic vision about one’s own future, short mention of one’s meaning of life and potentially, how it relates to current goals, very brief distilled overview of one’s entire past along with some interpreting remarks, especially, in case of an autobiography.

Q4. Recommendations worth considering when writing about yourself: OR What are the key components should be in your introduction:

Be honest - even learning how to write a paragraph about yourself requires knowing how to open/ reveal your soul, your past, or your mind. For some people, it is a real challenge, yet simply speaking about this is not enough – you should speak selectively, with a message and agenda in mind. Once this skill evolves, one could produce complex stories about oneself and even write voluminous autobiographical works.

Do not exaggerate – modesty and objectivity are valuable traits in every human, regardless of talent or achievements. Exhaustively list any merits/ achievements as part of the application but avoid by all means forming an impression of an arrogant, self-important person.  

if you are applying for admission to an academic institution within the US or from abroad, focus on achievements, talents, along with interests.  Knowing how much you should expand is essential since, in some circumstances, brevity is a strict requirement, while in others, detailed account, description of the mentioned traits/ aspects are expected.

Introduce yourself – the extent to which you do this obviously depends on the type of writing but a minimum of information in this regard is a must.

Avoid delicate subjects - like it or not, every historical period has its own taboos and as history proves it, people often wait for the right time to explore or discuss many of these. An example could be the evolution of attitudes towards suppression of women, in US society – unlike earlier, now such topics are discussed freely. Besides such subjects, there are many sensitive controversial subjects exploring which might be reasonable in certain circumstances in controversial argumentative essays, but not here as you don’t want to experiment too much when writing about yourself.

Avoid clichés – the best way of achieving this is by exploring complex, narrowly defined topics, by describing highly individual experiences, highly specific scenarios, highly original stories and thoughts. Don’t be afraid to talk about your peculiar struggles and associated achievements even if you think these might seem minor to others. Knowledge, empathy, and wisdom help people recognize such cases and accept the effort even without experiencing or fully grasping it.

if you have difficulties thinking objectively about yourself, always consider asking people that know you well about the key traits or talents they associate with you. Apart from helping with your essay, it should be really interesting to learn how other people see you.