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导读:首先,留学申请PS的开头的关键性不用多说,一篇好的留学PS开头一般是怎么样的呢?第一,它能给全文奠定一个好的基调;第二,它能引起招生官的注意和阅读兴趣;第三,它能包含PS的main idea,让招生官快速了解你的专业兴趣和能力所在。

首先,留学申请PS的开头的关键性不用多说,一篇好的留学PS开头一般是怎么样的呢?

第一,它能给全文奠定一个好的基调

第二,它能引起招生官的注意和阅读兴趣

第三,它能包含PS的main idea,让招生官快速了解你的专业兴趣和能力所在。

留学PS开头方式

大多数的攻略文只是告诉你Do和Don’t,并没具体的实例来让你参考好的开头和普通的开头是什么样的,本文就给大家精选不同类型留学PS开头方式和案例范文,让大家能够一看究竟!

那么长话短说,我们来看看一般有哪几种方式写留学PS的开头:

方式一:讲一个自己的故事

一个故事能引人入胜,说明自己对本专业长远且深入的兴趣,并且能让开头充满记忆点,是PS开头的一个不错的方式。

比如这位同学申请社工专业的同学,选择从自己的童年经历(单亲家庭,母亲酗酒)来讲述自己对社工的passion的起源,她的第一段是这么写的:

As An undergraduate I involved myself in a wide array of community service activities and even now I work 40 hours a week with abused and neglected children. This impulse to serve others and put myself in situations in which I feel I am making a difference likely stems from the very difficult circumstances of my childhood, which so influenced the woman I have become.

——摘自Telzer Richard J. 《How to Write a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate and Professional School》

但前提是——你有特别的经历和故事来说明你对专业的兴趣。若自己没有特别的选择专业的经历,最好还是采用别的方式开头,阐述该专业的价值和特质,把重点放在自己怎么怎么契合该专业上。

比如这篇申请EE博士同学的PS范文,虽然是从高中经历讲到本科经历,在讲到研究生经历,层层递进,虽然没有特别的故事,但是逻辑确是清晰的。而他的开头就是从高中学“数理化”开始讲起:

My interest in science dates back to my years in high school, where I excelled in physics, chemistry, and math. When I was a senior, I took a first-year calculus course at a local college (such an advanced-level class was not available in high school) and earned an A. It seemed only logical that I pursue a career in electrical engineering.

——摘自Telzer Richard J. 《How to Write a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate and Professional School》(这本书同学们可以去查一查,很多大学都推荐,写得非常好,豆瓣条目)

方式二:直接说出专业兴趣领域和方向

在研究式master的PS或PhD的PS中,多数的开头都会直接写明细分内容的兴趣和方向,以便招生官一眼判断学生的申请文件应该给哪一个professor看。如果学校还要求提供SOP,那么PS的重点则可以放在为什么有如此的兴趣和方向上,如果没有SOP,那么PS就应该更强调兴趣和方向的内容。

比如下面这位英语文学博士的PS的beginning part,就非常专业得体:

Having majored in literary studies (world literature) as an undergraduate, I would now like to concentrate on English and American literature.

I am especially interested in nineteenth-century literature, women's literature, Anglo-Saxon poetry, and folklore and folk literature. My personal literary projects have involved some combination of these subjects. For the oral section of my comprehensive exams, I specialized in nineteenth century novels by and about women. The relationship between "high" and folk literature became the subject for my honors essay, which examined Toni Morrison's use of classical, biblical, African, and Afro-American folk tradition in her novel. I plan to work further on this essay, treating Morrison's other novels and perhaps preparing a paper suitable for publication.

——摘自Telzer Richard J.

上面是比较直接且专业层面的内容,其实很多申授课类master会比较浅显地提及对专业领域的现状,兴趣和洞见等。比如下面的这篇英国G5 law school学生的留学申请ps开头;

In today's climate, an understanding of law is critical. The question of Scotland's independence and its legal repercussions; the European Treaty's effect on British law; the legitimacy of the war on terror and its effect on civil rights. There seems, to me, no more exciting a time to be studying law.

方式三:直接说明来意,学习或未来规划:

开门见山的方式虽然比较常规,简单,但是能马上对你的文书进行定调,也让招生官清楚的看到你的动机或意图。比如下面这位MBA学生的开头:

My decision to return to school now and earn my MBA degree stems rom my determination that I have specific needs that can best be met within the confines of graduate business curriculum. I need more specific general management skills, a greaater degree of expertise in data processing, and a broader knowledge of finance in order to progress in my career.

——摘自Telzer Richard J.

留学PS开头范文

方式四:引用名人名言

很多同学可能会想引用名言引起招生官的注意,但是请明确该名言是非常特别,为中心服务的,而不是俗套的名言或者泛泛之论。下面是一个申请犯罪学课程的学生写的ps开头,quotation就用得很新颖得体:

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." (Oscar Wilde) The role temptation plays within the context of the criminal psyche, is a matter which compels my inquisitive and analytical mind to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding.

看了这四种方式,大家应该知道怎么选择最适合的方式写开头了,但是实际写作的时候,开头还是要遵循逻辑和叙述上的PS写作通则。比如逻辑完整流畅,语言层次丰富,整体充满细节和力度等。正如华盛顿大学的招生部长John Herweg所强调:“We are looking for a clear statement that indicates that the applicant can use the English language in a meaningful and effective fashion.”

因此没有经验的同学们在实际操作还是会存在一些或多或少的不足,接下来我们奉上一篇在我们致远教育上使用文书修改服务的学霸同学的ps开头,导师修改建议以及修改后的版本,大家可以相应地完整地看看ps的开头从前到后,从粗糙到精美该注意哪些方面。

背景:学生本科是哈工大数学与应用数学专业,在海外从事金融工作三年,希望申请Gatech的计算机科学与技术硕士专业转为Fintech方向。

以下为学生background essay第一段:

Being gifted with mathematics, I took part in many mathematical contests and won a lot of prizes in school, which made my parents and teachers proud of me. Without any hesitation, I chose Mathematics and Applied Mathematics as my major in college. Various mathematical courses made me feel the scope and profundity of mathematics. Out of my passion for my major, I started to solve some mathematical problems by programming.

导师点评:作为首段,交代了数学背景(参加很多竞赛、赢了很多奖项)、本科专业,并说自己开始探索编程。深究下来,真正有意义的只有最后一句。首句中,many、a lot of等的使用,以及“我爸妈以我为骄傲”的表述,都大大降低的文章的书面度和专业性,对于比赛的内容、级别和地域范围、竞争程度等也没有给出具体的补充,总的来说文章力度不足,细节不够。

建议是润色语言的前提下,讲一个自己的心得或与数学相关的一个经历,分享数学最开始给自己留下的印象,或者最开始探索数学时自己的样子,由此引出自己学术之路的延伸。

修改后的版本:

More academically inclined in mathematics than peers, I have long been mesmerized by its watertight rigor, profundity and order. After the IMO 1990 hosted in China, there was a lengthy upsurge of Mathematical Olympiad studies and, out of intensive curiosity in the subject, I was among the few who won domestic medals and was inspired to explore deeper thusly. In 2008 I matriculated at Harbin Institute of Technology, majoring in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. On top of the systematic training, I started to solve mathematical problems by programming in real-life scenarios.

更换使用高级词汇和结构,增加每个小句包含的信息量,使文意更加简练、清晰、连贯。增加国内奥数热的背景,营造生动的画面感,细节上增加文章的可读性和吸引力,而不再是干巴巴的叙述。

读到这里,相信大家对于如何写好一篇的开头有了大致的了解。道理大家很容易明白,但实际写,绝大部分同学都会遇到非常多的问题,甚至依然无法写出一个像样的开头。

所谓“知易行难”,而在PS的“行”上,最好的解决办法,就是just do it,但也要不惜余力地去通彻地修改自己的PS。

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