Show how that information affected, or is reflected in, your own experience. As anecdotal material to support and illustrate the factual information. In this case, you'll use the factual information as your framework, and highlight each point with an experiential example or illustration. As an anecdotal lead and conclusion. The body of the article, however, may be purely factual, with few personal details.
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As a sidebar. You may prefer to restrict your primary article to the facts, and use the personal experience elements as a sidebar to illustrate and enhance those facts. Another approach is to use the factual material as a sidebar to the personal story. Besides asking yourself how the experience relates to the reader, you must also ask yourself how you relate to the experience. If you don't know how the story ends, you're not in a position to write about it.