Writing your way into university

Written by Elaine Millward


This article is an essential guide to how to editrepparttar personal statement. In this article Elaine Millward, encourages you to develop your editing skills and get a perfect finished personal statement.

Packed with advice and information, this article is written forrepparttar 109227 vast numbers of students embarking onrepparttar 109228 personal statement forrepparttar 109229 first time, she explains how to use editing for your advantage.

This article has been written as a mini guide to writingrepparttar 109230 personal statement. The Get Into Uni personal statement writing guide contains systematic instructions onrepparttar 109231 techniques to help increaserepparttar 109232 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 thatrepparttar 109233 subject area fascinatesrepparttar 109234 reader. This article will offer insight into how you should approach your personal statement.

One ofrepparttar 109235 typical complaints of Admission Officers is that student personal statements all seemrepparttar 109236 same; unfortunately, students normally read a number of sample statements onrepparttar 109237 internet and automatically write a typical personal statement fromrepparttar 109238 range of available sample personal statements found on websites. It is important to put yourself inrepparttar 109239 shoes ofrepparttar 109240 admissions officer: why would your application be unique, how are you different fromrepparttar 109241 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 findrepparttar 109242 perfect student.

So let’s take a look atrepparttar 109243 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 orrepparttar 109244 subject area of study. Althoughrepparttar 109245 personal statement should logically flow from start to finish, nonerepparttar 109246 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 giverepparttar 109247 admissions officer a glow so they will wish to continuerepparttar 109248 next section. To illustraterepparttar 109249 structure, let’s take a look atrepparttar 109250 typical personal statement organisation. The first paragraph will need to be an exciting and dynamic narrative to capturerepparttar 109251 readers attention,repparttar 109252 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 readerrepparttar 109253 final push to admit you.

You may find it helpful to prepare a brief synopsis or outline ofrepparttar 109254 way you see your personal statement developing. It doesn’t have to be very long or detailed and, like most personal statements outlines, you do not have to stick to it if, as you go along, you find a better route for your journey. Keep it simple and let it serve merely as a quick reminder of where you’re going. It might run like this: First memory – seeing my new baby brother in my mother’s arms. Nursing experience – volunteer in residential nursing home. Visitingrepparttar 109255 baby clinic – desires to become a midwife sufficed. Goals forrepparttar 109256 future – career ambitions.

Editing Your Personal Statement

Written by Elaine Millward


This article includes useful advice on editing a personal statement for university admission-- with impact. Please read our step-by-step guide on how to write your personal statement by visitingrepparttar following URL: http://www.getintouni.com/Free/Writing/ The personal statement writing guide includes a comprehensive and practical guide and is packed with inspirational and easy to follow advice, this article contains systematic instructions onrepparttar 109226 techniques to help increaserepparttar 109227 chances of your university application, this article contains a short guide on how to edit your personal statement and create tension and suspense within your writing. For most potential students there are some clear reasons why they wish to embark on university. Writingrepparttar 109228 personal statement for university submissions is one ofrepparttar 109229 most difficult, daunting tasks for any potential student. This article will offer insight into how you should build up tension and suspense and how to edit your personal statement – which is one area where students tend to overlook.

It is often said that personal statements are often autobiographical. This may well be true, because a wise maxim is “write about what you know.” And, if there is one thing we all know more about than anything else it is our own lives. Often students only write aboutrepparttar 109230 reasons why they wish to embark on a particular university course and many personal statements lack emotion, suspense, and tension. However, in a work of fact, emotion, is a key ingredient in successful personal statements. And, while students life’s may differ considerably from one other, we will each have knownrepparttar 109231 full gamut of emotions. It is important when writing your personal statement that you convey a sense of place to your reader andrepparttar 109232 way to do that is withrepparttar 109233 five senses sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. It is all too easy to forget that scenes, which are indelibly etched on your own mind, will not be equally clear inrepparttar 109234 reader’s unless you make them so by your writing.

Tension is one ofrepparttar 109235 second most important elements in writing, closely allied to suspense –repparttar 109236 “what happens next” ingredient. The problem for many students is to try to condenserepparttar 109237 personal statement into 600 words. Obviously,repparttar 109238 admission officer knows you only have this limited space, but nonetheless does judge you onrepparttar 109239 four minutes it takes to read your personal statement, if your personal statement includes tension and suspense - it is sure to be a winner. The secret to a good personal statement is not to give away too much to quickly, keep us guessing, hanging onto every word, thus building up tension and suspense. In order for there to be tension in your personal statement, there must be (or have been) something important at stake. Perhaps this was your family life or what you believe is your future. Perhapsrepparttar 109240 reason why you choserepparttar 109241 course you wish to study. Whatever it is, by not divulgingrepparttar 109242 outcome too soon, you will maintainrepparttar 109243 reader’s interest for that much longer. The following personal statement starts with a powerful suspense filling introduction:

The prospect of helping people has driven me to fulfil many goals in life and this is truly my dream. Although it is great to have ambitions – I now want to translate my goals into reality. Becoming a nurse is a natural extension of my interest in medicine. Following graduation, I found myself advising investment bankers onrepparttar 109244 stock exchange, secretly desiringrepparttar 109245 opportunity of helping others overcome illness and promote health.

In this personal statement introductionrepparttar 109246 reader is captured byrepparttar 109247 reason why they chose to become an investment banker. The author of this piece has demonstrated a powerful introduction,repparttar 109248 style is simple, straightforward narrative. This personal statement will surely provide a valuable insight as to why she wishes to become a nurse.

In order for there to be tension in your personal statement, it will help to describe a highly charged incident, part of a particularly difficult period in your life. Whatever it was, you will maintain your reader’s interest for that much longer. The example below shows perfect tension and suspense build up:

Whenrepparttar 109249 airmail letter arrived bearing an American stamp, I knew immediately, it was from my university with my degree results, and I tore it open as excitedly as if it were a birthday present. With trembling fingers, I took outrepparttar 109250 sheets of thin blue paper – and my heart started to pound as I began to read.

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