Personal Statements

"Hiding It from the Kids (With Apologies to Simon and Garfunkel)"

by Gerald Graff and Andrew Hoberek. 

College English 62 (2) November 1999, 242-254

"What do they want? Personal statements, bourbon, and a whole

lot of questions" by Mark Fenlon. 

The Writing Lab Newsletter 23 (9), May 1999, 1-5.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_perstate.html

http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/gradschool.html

www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/gradapp.html

http://www.cmu.edu/hpp/achieve/pstips.html