Thinking about Graduate School During a Pandemic?
Applying to graduate school during a pandemic shows tremendous courage.
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Applying to graduate school during a pandemic shows tremendous courage.
How to outline a winning personal statement for your graduate school application–even when one size doesn’t fit all.
Every graduate school personal statement should answer these two main questions: why am I interested in this field, and why this school the best fit?
I think of writing and editing as care for words and writers.
“Words with care” means care of self and world through the words we choose. How we use words in our thoughts and in our written work shapes the world we live in. Why not choose to use them carefully, and to show care?
But words with care is about more than writing. It’s about editing, too. When I edit, I want to lavish care on your words. As in deep listening, I’m paying attention for the heart of what you’re saying. It’s “soul care,” but for words and their writers.
As an editor, I have over six years of experience working closely with the written word. As director and editor at the Harvard Square Library I read all content closely before publishing to the web, including fact-checking, formatting, and bibliographic style. More recently I worked as project coordinator and editor for Digital Chicago. In January 2019, I became co-editor-in-chief for the twenty-year-old literary magazine Killing the Buddha.
As a developmental editor, I’ll look closely at the structure of your writing (if you’re at that stage in the process).
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