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Statement of Purpose(SOP)代写范文

发布时间:2020-10-19 15:41:08 阅读:3671

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  • 作者:致远教育
  • 导读:StatementofPurpose(下简称SoP)为专门描述你的学术背景和研究兴趣的文书,应该高度集中于展现你的学术素养上,不需要加入太多个人从小到大奋斗不息的经历,也不需要说“我从小热爱XX学,因为它如何如何有趣”这种废话。
  • 字数:1868 字
  • 预计阅读时间:6分钟

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有的学校要求美国本土研究生(此处特指学术型研究生,一般都是博士或者硕博连读项目)申请人写两篇文书。Statement of Purpose(下简称SoP)为专门描述你的学术背景和研究兴趣的文书,应该高度集中于展现你的学术素养上,不需要加入太多个人从小到大奋斗不息的经历,也不需要说“我从小热爱XX学,因为它如何如何有趣”这种废话。

Statement of Purpose 范文

对于中国的申请人而言,貌似一部分博士学位只需要一篇SoP描述学术志趣,还有很多学位只需要一篇Personal Statement,这种PS大致有点类似于SoP和PHS的混合物。

下述文章的作者十年前为UC Davis本科生,英语及历史双学位,毕业论文(honor thesis,暂且这么翻译吧)曾获该校The Chancellor's Award,即每年只评出一篇的整届最佳毕业论文。目前是哈佛大学科学史专业博士生。

Statement of Purpose范文

"Luscious fare is the jewel of inordinate desires," cautions the author of The Gentlewoman's Companion (1673), one of many early modern conduct books I surveyed this past year for an honors thesis entitled "'Chaste, Silent, and Hungry': The Problem of FemaleAppetite in Early Modern England, 1550-1700."As indicated by the title, this project explores a provocative but as of yet scarcely studied facet of early modern gender constructions: female food desire. I use the word "desire" here rather deliberately, as early modern definitions of appetite extended well beyond the physiological drive to eat to encompass all those physical (and shameful) longings associated with the body. And, in a culture where women were by definition immoderate and sensual, female food appetite, I argue, constituted an unruly desire that demanded both social and moral discipline. In brief, my research concerns the patriarchal control of women's bodies in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England vis--vis a cultural idea about food desire and satiation as suggestive and immodest.

In lieu of a formal introduction of my research interests and aspirations I offer a summary of my senior thesis, which earned me the 2003 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at the University of California, Davis.This first venture into serious historical scholarship has affirmed my passion for early modern culture and history; and it has given me the confidence to assert and contest my opinions regarding the status of women in early modern Europe and the current state of early modern historiography.Continuing along these avenues of research in graduate school, I would like to use mythesis as the basis for a future dissertation. Though I remain wary about committing myself prematurely to a specific topic of research, I am also eager to elaborate, modify, and complicate my original assertions about the nature of the "problem" of female appetite in early modern England. Indeed, many of the conclusions reached in the thesis, such as my claim that the cultural eroticization of feminine appetite in early modern England betrayed a deep-seated masculine mistrust of female sexuality and sexual power, serve as starting points for future research and study.

On a more basic level, writing a thesis gave me the chance to become better acquainted with the essentials of historical research. Suspecting that normative discourses in early modern England participated aggressively in the monitoring of women's appetites, I navigated the sea of early English printed sources in pursuit of the slightest mention of food and diet. Those sources I encountered during my research, which ranged from the popular conduct book, The Education of a Christian Woman by Juan Luis Vives, to the anonymous sex manual, Aristotle's Masterpiece, challenged my basic understanding of history and the original premise of my thesis in ways not anticipated. From deciphering esoteric type-fonts to developing an awareness of the importance of time and funds, I experienced the mundane realities of research that inevitably stunt the historian's aspirations. Even more important was my gradual acceptance of the fact that early modern sources, no matter how we read them, do not always accommodate modern biases and expectations.

Though I cannot predict the course this project might take in graduate school, I expect that it will address the following themes and issues. First is the overarching issue of distinguishing the phenomena I observe from other forms of food restriction and obsession,namely the modern ritual of dieting and its most extreme manifestation, an eating disorder. Though not willing to evade those complicated (and controversial) parallels between modern and early modern usages of food and food symbolism to control the lives of women, I also wish to offer as an historian a nuanced portrayal of how early modern conceptualizations of female appetite were infused with contemporary, historically contingent notions of sexuality and gender.

Furthermore, the question of female agency in a project devoted almost exclusively to male prescriptions for diet and behavior demands further discussion. Admittedly, on more than one occasion, my own extensive use and analysis of conduct books and various obstetric manuals, works composed primarily by educated men, caused me to pause and wonder whether it was best to relate a history about women's actions or the patriarchal apparatus under which those actions were oppressed. While I refuse to see women as simply passive receptacles of masculine command, I neither wish nor aspire to focus solely on their achievements; for, in my mind, the history of women and the history of patriarchy are inextricably related. My goal, then, will not be to detail just another example of how women in history were dominated by men, but, rather, to interrogate the means, in this case food, or, better yet, the cultural meaning of appetite, by which women's desires were suppressed or denied.

Indeed I am proud of my thesis and, given extra time, could say much more. But I should also stress that that at the heart of my specific research concentration lies a more general interest in early modern European history, cultural and women's history to be more exact.To date, my knowledge of the early modern period has been informed and my imagination sustained by an array of courses on early modern history and literature (I was a joint history and English major), including a graduate seminar on Renaissance urban culture taught jointly by Professors Margaret Ferguson and Deborah Harkness. My personal penchant for cultural history stems largely, I believe, from my training in literature and literary criticism, where sensitivity to the importance of language and metaphor is a necessary skill. Also of crucial importance to a professional career in history are my growing skills in Latin and French, and my fluency in Spanish.

This year I find myself in that difficult and frustrating transitional period between undergraduate and graduate studies. Though I would have preferred to directly continue graduate school after graduation, I opted to take a year off. A year away from school, I reasoned, would afford me the time needed to recuperate from an exhaustive undergraduate education, gain some perspective, and work on fulfilling the language requirement for a doctorate in European history. In fact, I am currently enrolled in a French course at a nearby university and plan to take a subsequent course during the upcoming spring semester. This academic hiatus, moreover, has imposed some much- needed distance between myself and my thesis, which I can now reread from a more critical, less invested stance. And, finally, a break from school has given me sufficient time to search and research for graduate programs that best suit my needs.

UC Berkeley's history program looms large in my mind, largely because of its outstanding faculty and interdisciplinary approach to history. In my own quest for a suitable graduate program, I was thrilled to learn that Professors Thomas Laqueur and Carla Hesse both taught at Berkeley. Professor Laqueur's book, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, stands out among the many books I read during my undergraduate education; and I credit his book with introducing me to the nascent but fascinating field of the history of sexuality and the body. Together, Professor Laqueur's cutting edge research and Professor Hesse's knowledge of early modern women's history would make my experience at Berkeley a challenging and enjoyable one.

In addition, Berkeley provides an idealclimate for me to develop my cross-disciplinary interests. In particular, I am interested in pursuing a designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality, a unique option that distinguishes Berkeley's history program from that of other institutions. The cross-disciplinary nature of Berkeley's graduate program would foster, I hope, fruitful discussions with other departments, notably the department of English and Women's Studies, thus broadening and enriching my research as well as my general understanding early modern culture and history.

这大概就是米国本土最厉害的文科生水平,语言实在太好,精彩之处太多,能操纵优美而又密度极大的语言,在最短的字数内表示出最丰富的含义。PS这类文书proof read个十遍八遍都不算少,一定要把所有的语法错误排除,所有的那种自编自造、自以为很精彩而外国人看不懂的用法都必须要排除。

这个作者设计全文结构的方式非常独特。对于博士申请人来说科研水平为重中之重,此文作者恰好有非常引以为傲的毕业论文,于是全文以毕业论文为线索来组织,以毕业论文的选题引出自己的研究旨趣,以毕业论文的研究方法来强调自己已经掌握了历史学研究方法,这种谋篇布局可谓匠心独运。国内申请人如果恰好也有一个非常重量级的科研经历,也可以考虑这样写,但如果科研经历没有这么牛,就不要弄巧成拙了,还是老实一段段描述的好。

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