Helping Your Students Write Personal Statements: Framing the Narrative for Fellowships and Other Opportunities [Hardcover]

Acknowledgements  Preface  Chapter 1: What Our Students Dont Know: What Is a Fellowship, and Why Apply for One?  Chapter 2: Common Denominators: What It Takes to Be a Successful Applicant  Chapter 3: Who Are You? Helping Your Students Know Who They Are  Chapter 4: What a Fellowship Committee Wants to Know about Your Student: Helping Your Students Understand How to Present Themselves  Chapter 5: Framing the Narrative: Authenticity in the Personal Statement  Chapter 6: Where to Begin? Getting Your Students Started on Writing Their Personal Statements  Chapter 7: Revising and Ending: Helping Your Students Understand the Importance of Refining Their Personal Statements  Conclusion: Recruiting, Cultivating, and Retaining Student Talent, and Faculty Collaboration  Index

This practical book is a timely and comprehensive guide designed for college advisors and instructors who are supporting and coaching students into successful internships, fellowships, graduate programs, and professional schools. This book emphasizes the most important part of any application, the personal statement: how to prepare to write it, how to draft it, how to revise itand why to invest time in the process of developing it. Helping Your Students Write Personal Statements analyzes the components of the effective personal statement and provides examples from many successful essays by actual college students, as well as exercises for students. It also gives advisors the tools to help engage students who might not ordinarily consider themselves credible candidates for nationally competitive fellowships. This book uniquely takes a developmental approach, offering college advisors and teachers a concrete, step-by-step plan to help any student craft the best, most persuasive personal statement they can write, helping transform their students into compelling, competitilC.