Helpful Web Sites
Graduate School Personal Statement
Secrets, by
Geoffrey Cook (Yahoo! Education) http://education.yahoo.com/college/essentials/articles/grad/gradessaysecrets.html
Preparation and Your
Graduate Admissions Essay, by Tara
Kuther (About.com)
http://gradschool.about.com/cs/essaywriting/a/essay1.htm
Writing Graduate
Application Essay, by Timothy Dzurilla ( Suite101.com)
http://graduate-schools.suite101.com/article.cfm/writing_graduate_application_essay
Application Essays (UW Madison Writing Center) http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/apessay_overview.html
Graduate School Essays (Center for Communication Practices at Rensselaer) http://www.ccp.rpi.edu/gradapp.html
Graduate School
Admission Essays (University of Tennessee Career Services)
http://career.utk.edu/students/grad_admissionessays.asp
Tips for Writing Your
Graduate School Application Essay (Quintessential Careers)
http://www.quintcareers.com/collegegate14.html
Tips & Info:
Putting the Essay into Perspective and Revising Your Essay (Essayadvice.com)
http://www.essayadvice.com/advicepurpose.asp
http://www.essayadvice.com/advicerevision.asp
General Tips for
Writing Successful Essays (Ivyessays.com)
http://www.ivyessays.com/b_tips1.asp
Writing the Personal
Statement (Purdue On-line Writing Lab [OWL])
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/642/01/
Web Resources
Listings to Tips and Other Advice
Guide to Writing Successful Graduate
Admissions Essays or Personal Statements: Articles with Tips & Advice to
Write Great Graduate Admissions Essays and Personal Statements
(Educationindex.net)
http://www.educationindex.net/educationarticles/graduateschoolstips/admissionsapplying/writewritingessays/basicswriting101essays.htm
All About the Graduate
Admissions Essays (About.com)
http://gradschool.about.com/od/essaywriting/All_About_the_Graduate_Admissions_Essay.htm
Graduate Admission Essay/Statement
Writing Services
Admissionessays.com Essayedge.com
Essayadvice.com Ivyessays.com
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vendor)