In an effort to increase access to research positions both on campus and in graduate school, PURC also holds focused writing workshops for students applying to the Research Opportunity Program in psychology and those applying to research-focused graduate programs (MA/PhD) in psychology.
These workshops are split over several weeks (3 workshops total for ROP applications, 5 workshops total for graduate applications). Each week, we introduce a piece of the application and then perform group editing from the materials we introduced the week before. At the end of the workshop, every students gets at least one round of detailed feedback from a graduate mentor they are assigned to.
Grad Workshops
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Across five workshops we:
- Introduce workshop objectives and discuss cover letters
- Review cover letters, introduce personal statement opening paragraphs
- Review opening paragraphs, discuss body paragraphs
- Review body paragraphs, discuss university-specific paragraphs
- Review university-specific paragraphs
ROP Workshops
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Across three workshops we:
- Introduce workshop objectives and discuss resumes
- Review resumes, introduce cover letters
- Review cover letters