Hacking Your Statement of Purpose: A Concise Guide to Writing Your SOP
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Hacking Your Statement of Purpose: A Concise Guide to Writing Your SOP
Hacking Your Statement of Purpose was compiled as a concise and easy resource to help you craft an excellent SOP. It’s designed to take you step-by-step from brainstorming to editing to submission, and perhaps most importantly, it is not loaded down with page-filling information regarding your GPA and extra-curricular activities. If you’re applying to graduate school, those long-born aspects of your application are water under the bridge. It’s time to focus on the make-or-break aspect of your application – your Statement of Purpose.
What is included in this guide:
- Step-by-step instructions from brainstorming to submission
- 5 brainstorming activities to help jump-start your writing
- Help with overcoming writing anxiety
- Specific advice for overcoming obstacles such as a low GPA or a change in field
- Templates for writing emails to PIs and professors
- Drafts and revisions of a successful sample essay to help you understand the editing process
- Descriptions of microrevisions and macrorevisions
- Suggestions for getting helpful feedback from proofreaders
- An 8 part checklist to make sure your Statement includes all the necessary pieces
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