This document provides tips for writing an autobiographical essay. It recommends writing about your real thoughts and emotions to make it easier and more interesting for readers. Some tips include avoiding cliché openings like stating your name and birthplace. Instead, use unexpected openings that draw the reader in, like contrasting how others see you versus how you feel inwardly. The essay does not need to be strictly chronological - it can start from the middle or end of the story. Transitions should be unexpected. Examples are provided of incorporating an anecdote about finding a hedgehog and how it could be used differently depending on the opening. The conclusion should also be surprising in some way, like relating how caring for the hedgehog prepared

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2. We hope that our tips
will help your with
writing an
autobiographical
essay.

3. To write a good autobiographical
essay, you have to be on your own
accord. If you write your real
thoughts and emotions, you will kill
two birds with one stone.

4. 1. The first stone is that it will be
much easier for you to write about
your own real feelings.
2. The second stone is that it will be
much more interesting and pleasant
for your potential readers to read your
sincere story.

5. Avoid banal phrases of starting an
autobiographical essay, such as “My
name is …”, “I was born in …”, “My
parents are …” and so on.

6. 1. The First Variant of Starting Your
Autobiographical Essay
For example, you may start your
autobiographical essay from this:
“Everyone knows me as the best and
the first guy in everything what I do,
but inwardly I feel myself as an
unprotected little boy…”.

7. 2. The Second Variant of Starting
Your Autobiographical Essay
If your situation is diametrically
opposed to the previous one, you
may write the following: “Nobody
knows me as a leader. However,
there were several situations in my
life where I proved to be a leader. Let
me share my story with you…”.

8. It is not obligatory to write a
autobiographical essay in the
chronological order. You may start from
the mid (or from the end) of your story.
Create unexpected transitions in your
autobiographical essay.

9. 1. The First Variant
Suppose you have started your autobiographical
essay with the words that there are some
moments in your life when you feel yourself like
a little boy. After that, you may tell a story how
the elder boys put the hedgehog in your
schoolbag by stealth. Describe your own feelings
at that moment:
“I was confused and embarrassed. On the one
hand, I knew that my parents would punish me
for the bringing this hedgehog at home. On the
other hand, it was cruel to throw this unprotected
little creature away. I felt myself like this
unfortunate hedgehog…”

10. 2. The Second Variant
If you have started your essay with the words that
“Nobody knows me as a leader. However, there were
several situations in my life where I proved to be a
leader. Let me share my story with you…”, you may
also tell the story about a hedgehog.
However, you have to demonstrate that you had other
emotions at that moment:
“It was without saying, that I brought the little
hedgehog at home. Of course, I was often afraid of
being punished by my strict parents, but not at that
moment. When I saw this unprotected little creature
which hid the nose under its prickles, I understood
that I stronger than this hedgehog and it was my must
to save its life…”

11. Try to make a surprising (the word
“surprising” doesn’t mean “not logical”)
conclusion for your potential readers.

12. For instance, you can make the didactic
conclusion of your autobiographical essay. Say
that when your younger brother was born, you
were already a well-experienced nurse, as you
had treated and fed your little hedgehog.
You may write the following : “From time to time
I am angry with my brother, but then I associate
him with the unprotected little hedgehog. Thus,
I relent to him”.