Wavetek Meterman and later simply Meterman manufactured test and measurement tools. The company was purchased by Danaher Corporation, which also owns Fluke and Amprobe. In 2008, Meterman was folded into the Amprobe name.
A five-paragraph essay starts with an introductory paragraph that ends in a topic statement. The next three paragraphs are considered the body of the essay; each one discusses one aspect of the topic statement. The concluding paragraph wraps it all up. An autobiographical essay is simply an autobiography written in the five-paragraph essay form. Writing one is not as daunting a task as it may seem.
Cover of the first English edition of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, 1793. An autobiography (from the Greek, Î±á½ÏÏÏ-autos self + Î²Î¯Î¿Ï-bios life + Î³ÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹Î½-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of a person. The word autobiography was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as pedantic.