Archaeology Magazine has a frequent contributor named Professor Wiseman who comes under our critical gaze for all his fine 'expertise'. He truly has struck a sore spot in our view of what is real about Runestone at Kensington. Most importantly he did his duty just after he was proven wrong in a conference of 'experts' from many of his own colleagues as well as other disciplines. It was February, 2001 when we read his 'Camelot in Kentucky' attack on most speculative of all articles that hit newsstands in early 2001, about Europeans in America or Diffusionist History. Shortly thereafter this organ of gods of archaeology had a piece on natural landforms of desert that became Sphinx and Pyramids. No credit due to man and science in ancient times is allowed, it seems. In fact all of us are mere 'post-modern speculative' trash as he would have it. We hit ceiling and laughed simultaneously. Let's allow his own words to prove our point (again).

"Perhaps unwittingly, Stengel follows in footsteps of hyper-diffusionists, raising old hoaxes exposed long ago. He brings up once again Kensington, Minnesota, Rune Stone with its account of Scandinavian visitors in 1392, which over past century has been repeatedly rejected as a forgery by scholars, most recently by Stephen Williams, a curator emeritus of Harvard's Peabody Museum, in his book Fantastic Archaeology...

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This article has been written as a mini guide to writing personal statement. The Get Into Uni personal statement writing guide contains systematic instructions on techniques to help increase odds of your application, however this article contains a short guide to writing your way into university. For most potential students there are some clear reasons why they wish to embark on university. The single best reason is that subject area fascinates reader. This article will offer insight into how you should approach your personal statement.

One of typical complaints of Admission Officers is that student personal statements all seem same; unfortunately, students normally read a number of sample statements on internet and automatically write a typical personal statement from range of available sample personal statements found on websites. It is important to put yourself in shoes of admissions officer: why would your application be unique, how are you different from other candidates? Primarily you need to decide how you will divide your personal statement into digestible chucks. The most obvious way is to divide into paragraphs of 100 words. If you aim for between 500 and 600 words at most, it will help your admission officer when they have to read thousands of personal statements to find perfect student.

So let’s take a look at way your personal statement should be structured? If you spent, time analysing our sample personal statements you will see that each paragraph revolves around one particular incident or subject area of study. Although personal statement should logically flow from start to finish, none less, unlike a book with a distinctive story running through it and building up to a climax, a personal statement is episodic in style and content so that each paragraph stands out.

In planning your paragraphs, you must give admissions officer a glow so they will wish to continue next section. To illustrate structure, let’s take a look at typical personal statement organisation. The first paragraph will need to be an exciting and dynamic narrative to capture readers attention, subsequent paragraphs should outline why you wish to study for your particular field followed by a compelling powerful final paragraph with strong action verbs to give your reader final push to admit you.