I've been struggling in my SOP with figuring out what to focus on when talking about the research I have done. I'm trying to find a balance between talking about the techniques I know, what the research is actually about, and what I learned that helped me think like a scientist. I'm leaning towards not really talking about the techniques at all since I have a section about that in my CV. But I'm struggling with how in depth to discuss the details of the research. Right now I'm talking about the conclusions we found in the project (including molecule names and all that) and I focus more specifically on the work I did and the conclusions it helped us reach. Does anyone have suggestions about how much we should get into the nitty gritty details about our research in our SOP?
I have also been reading around that we should try to show the adcomms in our SOP that we have certain qualities instead of telling them. I've found this difficult because I have wanted to include sentences like "this experience helped me develop my ability to think critically about problems," or something along those lines. If anyone has suggestions about how to successfully show that you have certain qualities without explicitly stating it I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for any feedback!