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Maybe a little off-topic from this forum, but who knows, maybe this is a common dilemma. I need to send my CV to a professor who's considering me for an RA-ship at the school that I've already been admitted to for my PhD that I'm starting this fall. What's the best way to put "incoming PhD" on my CV? I don't have anything close to an estimated completion date or anything, but presumably I would put the fact that I am actually attending the school on my CV, right? I already have my MA, but if I don't put anything about starting the PhD on my CV there won't be any indication that I'm in the field that I'm going into (the PhD is a pretty big jump from my MA area). Thanks!

I'm (hopefully, barring nothing tragic and unforeseen) graduating in May with an MA in Rhet/Comp, and have pretty much made up my mind that I'm taking a year off before applying for PhDs (basically, I'll be applying in Fall 2017 to start in Fall 2018). I want to do the PhD and I'm not really waffling about whether or not to do it, there's just a number of good reasons that would require me taking just one year off...so attending the PhD program isn't the issue. My question is that I'll be moving back to near the city where I did my undergrad, due to my spouse's job situation. Logically, lecturing/adjuncting for that year off would be pretty ideal. At my undergrad, there was a professor who I took one class with, but my main connection is through the fact that he was my direct supervisor during the five semesters that I tutored in the undergrad writing center, he's written numerous recommendations for me (including for my MA program), and is the director of the FYC program at the college. Would it be wildly inappropriate to email and let him know that I'll be "back in town," essentially, and if he needed another lecturer I'd be available? It's not like I'm asking for something way above my pay grade since I've picked up a good amount of teaching experience in my MA program, plus he let me read the letter he wrote to my MA schools (after I'd applied) and he basically said "I'll hire her if I'm ever in the position to." He's somewhat of a snarky eccentric, and I feel like we had a good rapport (first-name basis, generally friendly), but I haven't really been in touch for the past year and a half since I graduated, so that's another thing I'm not sure of. I don't NEED this job, but I'd like to do it, and I don't even know if the program's in the position to take on another person. Thoughts? Advice? Comments?

I wrote a paper that I'm adapting to use as a writing sample that used Chicago style/footnotes, complete with a cover page. I'm assuming that people have used papers with cover pages before, so what did you do when submitting them? Should I leave the cover page when I submit the whole thing as a PDF, or should I keep the footnotes and just convert the cover page info into a traditional MLA-type heading on the first page?

I'm applying to 6 schools in the US for an MA in Rhet/Comp, and while I feel like I have a reasonably good chance of getting into one, I would like to take a long shot and apply to somewhere off the wall where I have a very slim chance of getting accepted-- think Cambridge, etc. The only problem is that despite my best attempts, I cannot find one university outside the US that offers an emphasis in rhet comp except for a few universities in Canada. Does anybody know of any? Even more "average" schools that I am more likely to get into??

I'm trying to write a SOP for a grad school where I'm applying for an MA in English with a "structured emphasis" in Rhetoric and Composition. Rhet/Comp is solidly where I want to focus, but I also have "side" interests in medieval Scandinavian lit AND modern poetry (ie- Frost, Auden, etc.)...if I'm writing my SOP to talk about Rhet/Comp, is it bad to mention the other two? Is it bad to mention both of them? Or am I hopelessly indecisive in what I want to study? Truthfully, I probably do enjoy the modern poetry more than I do the Scandinavian lit, but that's a recent interest so my transcripts are definitely slanted towards the medieval side.. So..yep, sorry this is vague...any input would be appreciated, because I want to be honest in the SOP about what I intend to study, but I also don't want my SOP and my transcripts to say two different things, and I don't want to come across as somebody who wants to study EVERYTHING...except that that's minorly true, and my understanding is that in some ways grad school will help me narrow down my interests, especially since I'm already going primarily for Rhet/Comp and the poetry/medieval dilemma is only about my secondary interests..

I'm applying to several schools (approx. 5) for an MA in Rhet/Comp, and I have a professor who I'm going to ask for a LOR. How many schools should I ask him to write a letter for? I imagine he'd be able to just submit the same letter to all 5 schools, but is that too many to ask him to send letters to? I know several use online forms, so it's not a matter of physically mailing it, but we've developed a fairly close relationship over the years and I don't want to be annoying..