英語應用文寫作之自傳
自傳的寫作（ The Writing of Autobiography）
 自傳的寫法可與簡曆大體内容對應，但應當用完整的句子來表達經曆、學曆、個人特點等方面的内容。
例1： Lincoln’s Autobiography
Lincoln’s Autobiography
 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin Country, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was from a family named Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams County, and others in Macon County, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated, about 1781 or 1782, from Virginia to Kentucky, where he was killed by the Indians a year or two later, not in battle but when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest.
 My father, at the death of his father, was six years old, and he grew up literally without education. He moved from Kentucky to Indiana when I was seven. We reached our new home about the time the state came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. I grew up there. There were so-called schools, but no other qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond “reading, writing and adding”. If a stranger supposed to understand Latin happened to reside for a time in the neighborhood, he was looked on as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and add, but that was all. The little advance I have now made upon this store of education, I have picked up under the pressure of necessity.
 I was raised to do farm work, which I continued until I was twenty-one. At twenty-two, I came to Illinois. I remained in New Salem, Illinois, for a year as a clerk in a store. Then the Black Hawk War came. I was elected a captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went into the campaign, ran for the legislature the same year (1832), and was defeated, the only time that I have been rejected by the people. In the next and the three succeeding biennial elections I was elected to the legislature. I was not a candidate afterward. During that legislative period, I studied law and moved to Springfield to practice it. In 1846 I was elected to the lower house of Congress. I was not a candidate for reelection. From 1849 to 1854 I practiced law more assiduously than ever before. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Comprises aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well-known.
 If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said that I am nearly six feet four inches in height; lean in flesh, weighing one hundred and eighty pounds on the average, I have a dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. I have no other marks or brands.
 1.文章分析：從林肯自傳不難看出，第一段叙述了家庭背景，第二段是林肯所受過的教育，第三段集中在他的工作經曆上，最後一段則是有關林肯的一些個人資料，如身高、體重、外貌等特征。這與寫簡曆時的順序大體相符。
 2. Lincoln 林肯（Abraham,1809-1865, 美國第十六任總統，任期1860-1865，以解放黑奴著稱于世。）
 3．In 1863，President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation(解放黑奴宣言) freeing all slaves in the United States. (College English Book Five Unit Ten P.230)
4. 學位的簡稱（Degree’s Abbreviation）如：
 B.A. or BA (Bachelor of Arts) 文學士
 B.S. or BS (Bachelor of Science) 理學士
 B.M. or BM (Bachelor of Medicine) 醫學士
 M.A. or MA (Master of Arts) 文科碩士
 M.S. or MS (Master of Science) 理科碩士
 M.M. or MM (Master of Medicine) 醫科碩士
 M.B.A. or MBA (Master of Business Administration) 工商管理碩士
 Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) 哲學博士
 D.S. or DS (Doctor of Science) 理學博士
 M.D. or MD or DM (Doctor of Medicine) 醫學博士