如何写好留学文书中的SOP？

SOP就是statementpurpose，也就是你的学习动机，其实跟个人陈述差不多，我给大家发一个大学sop，sop都是有要求有模板的，会告诉你写一篇sop里面要包括哪些内容，然后要从哪几个层面写，然后字数要求等等都是会有题目要求的。

伯克利的SOP

The statement of purpose should convince readers–the faculty on the selection committee–that you have solid achievements behind you that show promise for your success in graduate study. Think of the statement of purpose as a composition with four different parts.

Part 1:Introduce yourself, your interests and motivations

Tell them what you’re interested in, and perhaps, what sparked your desire for graduate study. This should be short and to the point; don’t spend a great deal of time on autobiography.

Part 2:Summarize your undergraduate and previous graduate career

a）Research you conducted. Indessayate with whom, the title of the project, what your responsibilities were, and the outcome. Write technessayally, or in the style of your discipline. Professors are the people who read these statements.

b）Important paper or thesis project you completed, as well as anything scholarly beyond your curressayular requirements.

c）Work experience, especially if you had any kind of responsibility for testing, designing, researching or interning in an area similar to what you wish to study in graduate school.

Part 3: Discuss the relevance of your recent and current activities

If you graduated and worked prior to returning to grad school, indessayate what you’ve been doing: company or non-profit, your work/design team, responsibilities, what you learned. You can also indessayate here how this helped you focus your graduate studies.

Part 4: Elaborate on your academessay interests

Here you indessayate what you would like to study in graduate school in enough detail to convince the faculty that you understand the scope of research in their discipline, and are engaged with current research themes.

a）Indessayate the area of your interests. Ideally, pose a question, define a problem, or indessayate a theme that you would like to address, and questions that arise from contemporary research. This should be an ample paragraph!

b）Look on the web for information about departments you’re interested in, including professors and their resear。

这就是一个样板。比如说加州大学伯克利分校的某个研究生的专业，它就会有一个sop的要求。因为sop跟ps一个比较大的区别就是对ps来讲没有严格的必须包含哪个，有些学校会给你些建议，但是不会说你必须这样，就是他从形式上来讲不是太会限制的。但是sop的话呢，它会告诉你，你的这个sop里面要包括哪几个部分，如果是他在这个写作提示里面写到了，那你这些部分是必须涵盖的，就是相当于一个命题作文，还是会给你自由发挥的时间，所以sop的话，你要先去解题，然后针对题目了解了之后，包括字数上的要求，这你都是要按照要求来写的。

所以sop的写法跟ps是基本上通用的写法、方法、技巧，但会多一个你必须认真去审题，每个大学的sop要求字数，涵盖内容可能都是不一样的，所以sop的话，就分析题目就可以了。

我们也可以看到在这个比如说伯克利的这篇sop当中它就写得很清楚了，必须在你的这个文字的篇幅只要在五百到一千个单词。然后对你的行间距，用什么样的字体，都是有着明确的规定的，都要严格按照规定来写就可以了。