It has been a few semesters in the making, but UW–Madison’s Writing Center has begun releasing podcasts! You can subscribe to our feed and everything.
I’m a total podcast junkie: between bus-riding and chore-doing I probably listen to an hour of podcasts a day. Obviously I’ve followed this project with great interest and was ecstatic to help put together the first one.
Write This Way to the J-School [mp3, natch] is a conversation about personal statements with the undergraduate adviser at the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Robert Schwoch. Sure, a good bit of our conversation focuses on the mechanics and prompt of UW’s J-School, but for the most part Robert tackles issues that apply to any personal statement: who reads it and how they read it, what role it plays in a large application packet, how to distinguish yourself from the crowd, and all the rest.
If you have students working with personal statements, we’d love it if you’d point them our way!
Huh, that is very cool.