What are the writing skills for applying for studying in Canada?

The following are three basic parts of the document: personal statement (PS), resume (CV) and recommendation letter (RL).

First of all, let's talk about letters of recommendation: generally, schools require two or three letters of recommendation, which are sent directly to the school by the recommender. Most students in China ask their professors to write letters of recommendation. Let's talk about the choice of referees here. The selection of referees generally follows the principle of giving priority to Daniel, that is, try to find the talented Daniel as your referee to write you a letter of recommendation. However, apart from top universities, it is difficult to find a talented professor Daniel who is familiar to Canadian professors as your reference, so I personally think that the principle of giving priority to Daniel has certain limitations. Because if this so-called Professor Daniel is not known by the other professor, then Professor Daniel, Professor Niu and Professor Fei Niu will only be recognized as professors in the eyes of the other professor, and then your so-called Professor Daniel's aura will lose its effect and cannot add icing on the cake to your application. So how should we choose the referee? First of all, choose professors who often communicate abroad or some professors who are in charge of international exchange programs in their own colleges, because these professors often deal with foreign schools or colleges, and they will be more or less familiar with or understand some professors in some schools. If the school you apply for has a tutor who happens to know your recommender and even worked on a project, congratulations, and your recommendation letter will be recommended to some extent. Well, suppose you can't find any professors who can be known by foreign professors as your references now, what should you do? Well, you can try to find some professors with big titles, such as academicians, deans and directors of key laboratories. Of course, this is not my recommendation. I recommend professors and even associate professors who are familiar with you and have deep contact with you. Because you ask academicians, deans or some directors to be your references, there will be two situations: first, they write their own letters of recommendation. I heard from a friend that his professor (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) wrote a letter of recommendation, and then he opened it. Only three lines, basically he wrote "I recommend XXX" and it was gone. Second, if you write it yourself, it will be difficult for you to write clearly about your relationship with these professors. If you can't write clearly, some professors will not sign it, or they will make big changes themselves. Even if you barely sign your name, you can see at a glance that this letter of recommendation was written by a student. For those professors who are familiar with you, you can better control the recommendation letter, and you can clarify the relationship between "you" and the referee, and then give it to the professor for review, revision and signature. Sometimes you can even choose a psychological counselor as your reference. In addition to these referees from the school, you can also choose the manager of the company where you are internship or working as your referee. Of course, these are all based on needs, which will be explained in detail later. So what I sum up here is: Daniel, calf or non-ox, it is best to write clearly and clearly.

The above said the choice of the referee, and then talk about the content of the letter of recommendation. The general mainstream idea is to show your abilities and advantages from different aspects through the contents of three letters of recommendation. Reflect your advantages from different aspects, then you need to extract your advantages first. For example, classmate A now has three advantages: high GPA, research background and working experience in a big company. So how does classmate A express herself through three letters of recommendation? I need to find three targeted references here. Referee A, you can choose a familiar classroom teacher or directly find the head teacher. The recommendation letter of recommender A is mainly to highlight your talent, love learning and study hard for your high average score. As for how to write it, it depends on your personal habits. You can first express the relationship between "I" and the recommended person, and then explain how the recommended person is eager to learn through a practical example, and finally get such results. Referee B, you can choose the instructor who will take you to do research or the project leader of the project you are participating in. Because you have a research background, the recommendation letter of recommender B is used to reflect your personal research ability. It can be said that what you have done in this project reflects your scientific literacy or research potential and so on. Referee C is of course the manager or person in charge of the company where you are internship or working. "He" can discover and embody your work ability from his perspective, such as unity and cooperation, communication ability and so on. The three letters of recommendation combined in this way reflect your advantages to the professor from different angles and let him know you more comprehensively and deeply. Of course, it is best that you have no company work experience but have other advantages, and you can also find corresponding references to help you reflect. For example, if you have work experience as a student, it is good for your counselor to write about it. However, you should pay attention to your advantages and make contributions to your application, instead of writing about your advantages and specialties. For example, if you are a senior chef in the New Oriental Chef School, it is useless to write this again, because he invited you here to do research, not to cook. Even if you can cook, maybe he doesn't like Chinese food, you know.

Add it here. After writing the recommendation letter, let others read it before changing it, because if you write it yourself, it is easy to see that it is the same person's writing. If you change this a little, the sentence pattern will change and it will not be easy to be found.

Secondly, talk about CV. Resume is to introduce your personal experience in recent years in short words. Some people write resumes in great detail and write a few pages, so this is not a resume, but a complicated calendar, so pay attention to the accuracy and completeness of resumes here. First of all, take the time to recall all your experiences in recent years, sort out all your achievements, and then pick out those things that are useful for your application, and remove those experiences such as working in KFC, because the resume is limited in space and can't accommodate these unimportant things. And don't forget things that are useful for your application. I have read the resume of a graduate student before, and he even forgot to reflect his published papers in his resume. What a great loss!

Well, suppose you have arranged it now, and you have written down all your important experiences, then the next question is how to typeset it. My suggestion for the layout of resume is anticlimactic. Tiger head, naturally, makes you show your brightest place at the very beginning. For example, some people have great scholarships. For example, after writing all the basic contents of his resume, the first paragraph is a scholarship, and then a variety of amazing cosmic awards are listed, which has amazing visual impact and makes the professor bow down for the first time; Moreover, some people have strong scientific research skills, so his first section is research experience, listing various Galaxy fund projects, which impressed the professors and made them feel proactive and responsive. Putting your bright spot in the first paragraph of your resume is the so-called tiger head. It's not a snake's tail, it means you can't just press flash. There needs to be something at the end of the finale. I believe everyone knows that the general characteristics of personal memory are that the beginning and the end are the easiest to remember, and the content in the middle is the easiest to forget. Therefore, if your ending is a very weak part (for example, just say what level certificate you have obtained in English, what computer certificate you have, and even what hobbies you have written), then the combination of the beginning and the end is bound to make the professor look at the previous content very interesting, and the following content is the same, and this person's resume will be more and more. If you put a heavyweight section at the back, the professor will feel that this person's resume is very substantial and full of good content, indicating that the baby is looking forward to it. In this way, as soon as the first one echoes, the aura of the whole resume is very strong.