It starts off by explaining exactly how the writer heard about this particular course - unless this information shows something important about you, leave it out.Unless your high school days are especially interesting, concentrate on your university career.
It provides an entire life history, starting from birth, - by the time you reach the important bit, your reader will have lost interest. It starts with flattering comments about the university they are applying for - the person who reads your statement already knows how good their institution is: they don't need you to tell them. If a statement of purpose fails to catch the reader's attention, it may be due to one or more of the following problems: If yours does not stand out in some way that shows that you are original, different and interesting - which of course you are (but at the same time not eccentric or peculiar - which you may be, but don't emphasize the fact!), it will be consigned to the heap of also-rans, the people who may get a place if there are some left over at the end. The person who reads your statement will have read dozens of others. When you write a statement of purpose, you need to remember that you are just one of many, perhaps even hundreds of applicants for your chosen study place. If so, the guidelines below are designed to help you. Frequently, however, universities do not give any guidance as to what they want, perhaps wanting to test if you are intelligent enough to work it out for yourself. If you have 500 words, they expect you to spend most of them answering their questions, not volunteering other information. Do not omit to answer any of the questions you are asked, and consider carefully before providing information you were not asked for. If, for example, you have been asked to specify why you want to study at this university, make sure you answer that question, and that your paragraph starts with a sentence that will signal that you are answering it (e.g."My reasons for studying."). Do Answer the Question!īefore you start writing your statement of purpose, look careful at any instructions you have been given. The resulting revised draft will be even more effective. But don't leave it at that: when you have finished, come to the Writing Center and discuss your statement of purpose with us. Like any other academic genre, a statement of purpose has a logical structure and development, and its purpose is to simultaneously show why you are the best candidate for a given course or grant, and why this course or grant is the most suitable one for you. 
Now you have to write a paper about yourself. We spend our time trying to eliminate ourselves from other academic writing, from research proposals or from term papers.
Of all the different types of text you will have to write in the academic world, the statement of purpose is one of the most difficult, not least because it is about you.
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