I. Personal statement PS
Personal statement is to write an article about the applicant's background, academic achievements and future research and career goals according to the requirements of the school during the application process. Almost all British schools require applicants to provide personal statements.
A successful personal statement should not only be fluent in language, rigorous in logic and clear in organization, but also fully display the talent of the applicant and catch the attention of the reviewers.
When applying for studying in the UK, the admissions officer pays more attention to the relevance and rigor of the statement. What he wants to see is your real motivation for choosing schools, departments and majors, and how you think you meet the requirements. Instead of "a school is a famous university in Britain, and its major is very famous. I feel very honored to apply for this major. I have been interested in a certain subject since I was a child. " This kind of empty talk
The contents of the personal statement shall include the following three materials:
1. Academic or professional interests and background of the applicant;
2. The direction to be studied;
3. Future career goals.
When writing, the article is divided into three main parts according to the above three points. Don't make a list and don't repeat the information already in the application form.
Second, resume CV
The purpose of resume is to let the other party have a clear understanding of the overall situation of the applicant. We should strive to accurately reflect our experience in education and professional work on the basis of truthfulness, comprehensiveness and conciseness, especially our work direction, research interests and achievements in recent years.
Resume mainly includes the following contents:
1, name.
2. Gender.
3. Date and place of birth.
The date of birth of various academic certificates should be consistent, and the country and province should be indicated.
4. Nationality.
5. Married or not.
6. Current work unit and detailed mailing address.
7. Personal education experience.
Including the study time of university and postgraduate stage, the name, specialty and degree of the university; The educational experience after joining the work mainly refers to receiving special continuing education, training or learning at work.
8. Personal professional experience.
Fill in the professional experience should strive to grasp the key points and highlight the research direction; As teaching work, you can list the names of courses that lecture and help lecture; Those engaged in research work can list the names of topics participating in various research projects.
9. What books, papers or research results are there?
10, foreign language proficiency.
1 1, what kind of academic groups you join and what kind of honors you get.
Third, letters of recommendation
Letter of recommendation is a very important part of the application documents. Because the letter of recommendation is the only one in the application materials that evaluates the applicant's academic performance, academic research ability, research potential and personality characteristics from a third-party perspective. Therefore, the weight of the recommendation letter is directly related to whether you can study abroad and get the contents of the recommendation letter such as scholarships.
In the process of applying for studying in Britain, the school usually requires the applicant's tutor or professor to issue 2-4 letters of recommendation.
The basic composition of a letter of recommendation includes not only the letterhead, mailing date, life, address, title, signature, life and position of the recommender, but also the following items:
1. Referee's full name: You can't just write Miss Huang and Miss He in full text. You need to write the full name of the recommended person clearly at least once.
2. Acquaintance period: When did you meet? Or how long have you known each other?
3. Understanding level: meet occasionally or get close to each other, such as a classroom teacher or class teacher.
4. Relationship with the applicant: teacher or department head, etc.
5. Academic achievements: Discuss the research fields that the applicant is good at and not good at.
6. Personal achievement: special performance in school, work or family.
Such as getting a scholarship, doing a good job, etc.
7. Special abilities: special abilities in language, art and sports.
note:
Don't use templates in clerical writing. As long as the template is used, it will not leave a good impression on the admissions officer, because it will feel that the applicant is not motivated and active. So the document must highlight the relevance and ability of the major you are applying for.