GETTING INSPIRED: MATERIALS FOR ANY STAGE While there is no universal Academic Statement template, there are many ways to write one to meet your specific goals. This section aims to give you some options for how you go about creating an Academic Statement that works for you. A student whose emphasis is in the sciences is going to have a different academic story, skill set, and goals than a student whose emphasis is creative writing. The qualities of an effective Academic Statement are contextual to the student. Because readers should be able to come away from any Academic Statement knowing that you grew as a person through your education, parsing out the most important aspects of your education may require a good amount of freewriting, brainstorming, or talking with friends. This can be a lot of work but it will be clear in the final product that this time was well spent. In this section we provide a variety of tools that have helped us describe our Evergreen experiences in hopes that they will help you in any stage of your process. These ideas apply to any stage but not necessarily every student, so pick out what speaks to you the most.
What Genre is an Academic Statement? What genre of writing is an Academic Statement? You can draw from writing genres that you are familiar with to help inform how to communicate with your reader. The chart on the following page shows how you might experience writing in these other genres to write your Annual or Final Academic Statements. For more about how to style your Academic Statements, see Essay Styles to Browse on page 26 and Drafting Techniques on page 42.
A Guide to Writing Your Academic Statements | 17
