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Writing Persuasive Personal Statements

Wednesday, October 2, 2013
12:00 AM
Rackham Building, East Conference Room (4th floor)

This session considers personal statements as forms of argument and focuses on their underlying rhetoric. 

Co-Sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School

This session considers personal statements as forms of argument and focuses on their underlying rhetoric. 

The workshop will:

  • Consider the audience for statements of purpose and discuss how to write to meet its needs
  • Review examples of calls for proposals and decode their language to see more clearly how best to respond
  • Offer tips on easy ways of preparing to write and enrich the statement
  • Share exercises on how to conceive of the statement as an argument
  • Discuss things to avoid in statements of purpose

This workshop will be useful for any graduate student applying for fellowships, grants, or other opportunities whose applications require some form of statement of purpose. It will not address how to identify grant or fellowship opportunities.

Speaker:
Jamie Jones