Astronaut Biography

Gathering facts and photos to create an informative biography.Choose one of the seven “Mercury Seven” astronauts for the topic of your biographical essay. Research the astronaut you chose, find several photos to illustrate your essay, and use the standard college five paragraph essay format to write a short, informative, interesting essay. Read over the information from OWL Purdue:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/1/

Be sure to use MLA formatting style to document your sources.

A common mistake beginning college writers make is to copy/quote too much text from their sources. Make sure you paraphrase and use your own words as much as possible. Effective writers use the technique know as quotation blending or integrating quotations into sentences:

http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/quotes.htm

Go to this link to see a sample research biographical essay:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/library/mla.pdf
The first astronauts, the Mercury Seven, were (left to right) Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Walter H. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepherd Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. Image credit: NASA