[Englmajors] Graduate School in English Workshops

[Melissa Wensel]

Are you just starting to consider graduate study in English?  Are you in 
the middle of the application process for Autumn 2006 admission right 
now?  Whatever your stage of the game, our upcoming workshops on 
preparing for and getting into grad school are sure to help:

Graduate Study in English:
How to Prepare, How to Apply
Tuesday, October 25
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Smith 405

This first session features special guests, Professor Mark Patterson, 
former director of graduate studies, and Professor Maya Sonenberg, 
current director of the creative writing program.  These veteran 
graduate faculty members will answer all your questions fully and 
candidly.  Find out what admissions committees look for when reading 
critical and creative writing samples.  Discover how to get really 
effective letters of recommendation.  Learn what you have to do to 
prepare yourself intellectually for the rigors of graduate level 
scholarship!

Statement of Pupose Workshop
Monday, October 31
1:30-2:20 p.m.
Smith 105

BOO!!  Yes, it's quite fitting that the statement of purpose workshop is 
on Halloween this year.  This is scary stuff!  It's an unfamiliar 
writing assignment with serious consequences.  What should this essay 
include?  Leave out?  How should it be organized?  How important is it 
in the admission process?  Learn answers to all these questions PLUS get 
a chance to see and critique several sample statements of purpose!

Melissa Wensel
English Advising
(206)543-2634