Write an autobiography relating to [Pierre] Teilhard de CHARDIN
WHAT TO INCLUDE
AND HOW TO ORGANIZE THE ASSIGNMENT
To get full marks in each of the sections of the evaluation sheet for this assignment
you should make sure you have answered the following questions somewhere in the paper:
1.
Did I write this paper in 1st person format, as if I was that person?
What was ‘my’ big contribution to Catholicism or the world? Am I significant to history or today?
2.
Did I include the major details of my life?
3.
What exactly was my time period like ?
Was society different than today?
4.
Was I ahead of the times or was I behind the times?
In other words, were my ideas or contributions old or new compared to everyone around me ?
5.
Would I have been better off living in a different period of history?
6.
Do I deserve to be respected or not? How would Catholics and others today
feel about me?
7.
What are my strengths and weaknesses?Did I leave a positive or negative impact
on Catholicism?
WRITING YOUR
ESSAY
Generally, one does not use the pronoun of ‘I’ in an academic paper (apart from
opinion pieces), but because this is an ‘autobiography’ you must write it in the ‘first
-person’ format, using terms such as ‘I’ and ‘my’ and ‘mine’.
Handing in the assignment as a simple biography of someone will result in a very low grade. In the process of doing research for this essay, you will encounter articles, books, and
Web sites offering different opinions about the significance of the person you have chosen for this assign
m
ent
. To proper write this autobiography
,
imagine how they would record the story of their life. How would they answer questions?
As you do this, you will need to
make decisions about what
to include. Not everything in someone’s life will be related to our study of
Catholicism.
CRITERIA FOR GRADING
1) Double spaced, 1500 minimum words, 2000 maximum words.
2) Complete, correct bibliography of all sources used.
3) Direct quotations are indicated as such and their source properly documented with citations.
4) APA wrtiting style.
