Kwest

hey! I'm willing to read yours. I'm applying for ling as well, but for phonetics/phonology. I kind of smashed two short papers together and beefed them both up but it's still short, only 11 pages plus one for references. Just PM and we can trade if you want.

I'd like to throw my hat into the this arena as well. I'm willing to read and review if you will read mine! Just PM me please!

Thanks for reponses! I was wondering though for OSU (as in ohio state) it doesn't say sop or ps...it just says "brief autobiographical statement" They are also asking for a resume/CV so perhaps I should consider this as going the more personal route in the autobiographical statement? Seems I should consult with the program coordinator either way .

Would everyone consider an SOP the same as a "Brief autobiographical statement of your educational goals and objectives" as quoted per OSU? In the same vein, I've been considering all "statement of purpose," "personal statement," or "letter of intent" to be the same thing...Of course it should be taylored to the school, but I've taken them as meaning the same thing essentially, right? Also, I've written yet another draft of this thing and was wondering if anyone would be willing to look it over? Thanks in advance for the assistance!

I'm going through my first round of applications and I'm getting all my stuff together. I'm worried about my writing sample for various reasons. While in my undergraduate ling program I never did a research project or thesis. I did a couple annotated bibliographies, but that hardly seems ideal. Right now I'm planning on submitting a paper I did for speech science about two experiments. In the first experiment I compared acoustic variations between the tense vowels [i,e,u] and their lax counterparts. In the second experiment I looked at duration variation in stressed and non-stressed syllables. The paper, as is, details the experiment methods, findings and conclusion...but it isn't...ground breaking, original or unique since it is mostly replication of other studies. It's also pretty short at 6 pages. In order to beef it up, I'm considering tacking on a third part which will tie in the acoustic findings of the first two experiments with a new perception task in a third proposed experiment. Here I will detail subjects, goals, hypothesis, methods, possible outcomes and the benefits of doing such an experiment. Bear in mind that I only have a ghost of an idea for this third proposal. My other option is to simply write something new...which I 'kind of' have time for if I apply for spring instead of fall. Would it be best to go with my first option or to just write something new? Also, if I go with my first option, upon it's completion would anyone like to read and review it for me? It's been kind of Frankensteined...lol