Help! "Please provide a non-technical summary of your proposed research"

[tendaysleft]

I'm applying to MA programs in the humanities. One program, in addition to requiring a research statement that is mailed in, asks you to "Please provide a non-technical summary of your proposed research" in the online application.

I'm not really sure what to include here. Does anyone have any thoughts on how this is supposed to be different from the research statement that I mailed in? And what might non-technical mean in a humanities context? The text box to answer this question is pretty small.

Thanks for your help, everybody!

[tightlywound]

I am pretty sure I know which university this is. I also came across this question.

Regardless, I copied and pasted a portion of my statement into that text box, tweaking it slightly to suit the question/fit the box. I did this for some of the other questions too, I think. For others, I simply put something along the lines of "For such and such information, please see CV/statement, forthcoming."

[tendaysleft]

Haha yes, looking at your location, I'd say you're probably right about the school I ended up condensing a research proposal I had sent to my POI (a different document from the SOP) to around 250 words while trying to use "non-technical" language, whatever that means. Perhaps that's more of an instruction for students in the sciences.