由于自己在出国留学的时候，深受各类文书特别是个人陈述的折磨，信息掌握也不全面，回顾当时的那段日子，真的太太太惨了，走了太多弯路。所以在毕业之际，总算有勇气回顾一下自己之前在申请的时候，收集到的基本信息，在这里与大家分享一下
本科申请文书
1. what makes a good essay？文书的要素
a. be yourself and be individual
讲述你自己的故事，有个人特色/特征的，突出自己的优点
b. Give something new and something different
文书素材上应该新颖，找出与别人不同的地方
c. Focused on one topic
本科的文书写作不需要把所有的经历全部罗列出来，只需要针对或围绕自己所要申请的专业进行论述，代表学生本人的潜力。并且将此话题变得有故事性
d. Be detailed and be concise
在文书论述上，应该有细节来支撑与论证你的故事或经历。同时避免啰嗦，用词上简明扼要。比如在康纳尔大学的文书要求是500-600字，那么应该选取精准的用词与经历进论述。
e. Watch out the sensitive and contractive issues
2. Essay topics文书的话题有哪些？
a. Why our school
论述为什么选择该学校？罗列出自己的兴趣，原因以及该学校的特点。这个需要学生查询自己所选学校或者该专业知名教授的情况进行论述。
b. Diversity
这个主要考察学生的多样化发展，特长，获得奖励等在文书中需要有所体现
c. Leadership activities
展示自己的领导能力，用自己经历说明
d. Unique qualities
这里是学生认为自己怎么样能在众多申请者中脱颖而出的地方，与别人不同的特质。这是比较重要的论述，需要学生自己对自己的过去经历以及未来发展进行思考后写下的。
e. Setbacks and challenges
这里主要是论述自己在生活中遇到的困难或者挑战，而你采取的方法是什么？
f. How can you contribute back to our school?
这一点主要是对自己未来的学术或者研究上的展望，也可以是对自己专业的认识和所期望的目标。
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总结来说，所有的文书论述，经历都要来源于学生，也可以不与你申请的专业相关。可是所选择的经历一定是要体现申请者的personal quality的，都应该是服务于申请者的潜质的，体现个人的能力提升（创造力，批判性等）
3. Before writing-brain storm文书写作前的头脑风暴
“The lesson we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experience failure. How did it affect you and what did you learn from the experience?”
在自己申请前，对自己的经历有一个完整的叙述。重新包装已经历的故事，进行有推进的叙述，并且此项经历对学生的能力又怎样的提升，从中学到了什么有意义的事。、
比如：素材挖掘过程（头脑风暴）——经历失败——寻找解决方法——克服困难——经验教训的叙述经历的过程，使得自己的经历有独特和故事性，并体现自己的能力与潜力。
硕士申请文书
最常见的内容包含以下几个方面：
1. 为什么申请这个专业？
阐述动机，可以提及自己具体对哪些领域感兴趣，是否有具体的研究计划/方向。并结合自己的经历，体现自己的热情。
2. 你的长期及短期目标是什么？
对自己的学术要求或职业要求有详细的叙述，最好是有5年或10年的目标。
3. 我们学校的项目如何能够帮助你实现你的职业目标？
提起学校的特色项目/活动，并且目标专业如何匹配你自己。最好对学校网页上有兴趣的教授或研究领域有所提及。
那么主要有三点需要开始叙述
① 个人基本情况：不同于Resume，这里要着重表述个人的学习和工作期间的主要成绩。最好是列举与目标专业一致的项目经历或论文发表，为自己硕士阶段的研究奠定基础。最好在学习（比如论文发表/成绩/获得奖项等）和工作/科研经历上举例说明。
② 申请原因：明确阐述你为什么要申请该校的这个专业以及这个学校为什么吸引你，包括你学习这个专业对你将来的人生规划有什么帮助。
③ 未来职业构想：对自己未来的职业或学术目标应该有一个清晰的认识，切记空洞用词例如报效国家回报父母等。
那么如何将以上三点情况形成有逻辑，有故事性的叙述文章呢？
主题框架：将支撑素材进行有逻辑的铺陈（按时间或按重要性/激励性）——这样的经历与收获的经验——怎么样激发出——自己的兴趣或者目标（goal）——why xx school could help you achieve your goals（学术资源/科研方向/教授科研领域/校友关系等等）
在这里分享一篇建筑专业硕士的申请文书哦，大家可以参考一下。
Dear Sir/Madam
Please mind me starting with a sentence which left me a deep impression. “You need to give creative people ample space and at the same time put them on a long lead. Managing creativity implies a willingness to bend the rules, make mistakes, accept unfinished ideas and to live with ambiguity and chaos.” This paragraph was the said by Manfred Kets de Vriesfrom the website of TU Delft，which wake my almost sleeping heart to pursue the career of architecture.
For me, Architecture not only refers to a kind of simple design, but also trying to develop creative and innovative building projects which regard design as a method to deal with technical, social and spatial challenges which we encountered in our life. Just like my final graduation project which can show my strong ability, it discovers and reforms a specific architecture form—Lifen architectural complex in Shahu Cultural centre in Wuhan. This kind of residential building is the main type of dwelling in modern Wuhan, and it is also called Nongtang in Shanghai, which can be regarded as the most symbolic culture to represent the history and culture of a city. However, with the tendency of economic and political globalization, increasingly more and more old architecture was replaced by residence community or high building. There is no denying that it would result in damaging traditional culture and traditional lifestyle. Therefore, my graduation project has realistic meaning for the protection and renovation of modern historic areas and the development of modern residence design with local characters of Wuhan.
Based on the investigation and discovering of Lifen, my concept of design is to creatively combine the traditional architectural style with modern limited space, at the same time, to maintain the advantages of its character. Therefore we should make sure it have access to inner, while half open to outside, and also involves more people to take active part in it, what’s more important, it cannot be disturbed by surrounding environments, like square, road. By deeply discovering some architectural features of layout, construction, decoration, design, dwelling form, interns of architectural forms and material of this old architecture, we adopt the beam, pitched roof tile, and neat work into our reconstruction, which not only inherit the traditional character of old architecture, but also fuse surrounded environment，providing a more diversity insight. Namely, through designing periscope, external and internal can well be connected with each other. This design is more likely tothe way of ancient Chinese garden choosing scenery, which can raise the interest of people.
If I have to explain Why I choose Netherlands, especially TU Delft to continue my Architecture career, I would say there are mainly three reasons. First reason is that Netherlands is where my dream starts from. The first impression of Architecture on me was the amazing work from artist Piet Cornelies Mondrian，who is a famous neoplasticism artist in Netherlands. When I was still a freshman, my tutor assigned me a project that to convert the square graph from 2D to 3D, which can be the really interesting but tough for me. However, by doing that I found how wonderful and fantasy the architecture world is, and achieved outstanding design which originated from square graph. From that time onward, my great interest is guided by architecture, and I enjoyed too much in the designing process of architecture.
Secondly, for me, expanding my knowledge and skills cannot be the only reason for making an application for Master degree, I still want to specialize further in a particular area of the discipline. I know TU Delft has a very good reputation all over the world, it is said that TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment holds a leading position in its field. At the same time, Delft pays a lot of attentions to the logicality and integrality of person’s profile. This is what I am trying to improve, because in my last work, I tend to convey the spirit and connotation of architecture to the public by focusing on some important details, sometime it makes me forget to take the elements of integrality and integration into account. Thus I need to make up the deficiency to improve my comprehensive ability. Ps: I know the major architectural in Delft is not called Architectural Faculty, It has a very interesting name which called BK City.
Thirdly, figuring out the practical problems is also another reason for me to choose TU Delft. In the process of architectural design, the architectural forms and architectural styles of Netherlands have a huge influence on me, offering me a lot of valuable inspiration. Nowadays, among all the work by the talented artists and architect, which inspired me most is the architecture office like OMA, MVRDV, I found a very funny situation that there are many architectures can creatively use design methods to solve social and living environment. It reminds me of some difficult questions which have existed in China for a long time, such as China traditional garden, which is urgently need to be protected by public. However this kind of situation was still not solved. As a result, as a architect in China, only to rich my architectural theories and understand the comprehensive design system is not enough, I think we have responsibilities to skillfully utilize some advanced design methods to solve existed problems, and can be technically trained by professionals who can develop and implement metropolitan solutions.
Last but not least, as a talented student of architecture, with consistently study in Fine Arts University, I always try to push myself to be better and better in the field of architecture, which makes me closer to my goal and dream. And also in the profile of your website, it says the mission of your faculty is to educates students to become excellent architectural engineers: from building technologists and urbanists to architects, landscape architects, real estate experts and geodata specialists, working at both national and international levels; This is also my dream to possess knowledge of the latest developments in the field of architecture and the built environment which holds a strong promise for future.
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I wish I could be offered a chance to study there, thanks a lot!
Looking forward for your replying!
Sincerely yours,
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