Personal Statement

Personal Statement

In this personal statement, I give a non-technical description of my research. I only cite my own papers, numbering them as they appear on my CV. This non-technical description mostly discusses my work in symplectic geometry, but also some recent work in string topology. In the separate self-contained research statement, I provide a technical description of the research. In the research stateme...

Writing Resources: Personal Statements and Letters of Recommendation

Writing a personal statement, letter of recommendation, or fellowship statement is a reflective process. It requires one to be thoughtful about why one has engaged in professional experiences as well as intentional about what one has learned. In general these documents should discuss how the applicants' pursuit of their goals has informed their career paths and ideally how their goals align wit...

How Physician Assistant Programs Use the CASPA Personal Statement in Their Admissions Process.

PURPOSE This research surveyed physician assistant (PA) program admissions personnel to determine how the Central Application Service for Physician Assistants (CASPA) personal statements are used, what influence the statements had on certain admissions processes, whether there was any concern about authorship of the statements, and how important certain previously identified content themes were...

Subjective vs. Objective Evaluation of Ontological Statements with Crowdsourcing

In this paper we propose and test a methodology for evaluation of statements of a multi-viewpoint ontology by crowdsourcing. The task for the workers was to assess each of the given statement as true statements, controversial viewpoint statement or error. Typically, in crowdsourcing experiments the workers are asked for their personal opinions on the given subject. However, in our case their ab...

Young mothers’ experiences of relationship abuse: Personal stories and public narratives

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Personal Income Distribution and Model Stratification of Society in Application to Kazakhstan Statement of the Problem