Stage 6 · Lesson 4 of 9
An academic CV
and industry resumes are different documents. An academic CV leads with education, including grades and your thesis title. Then come , publications or reports, projects and relevant work.
After that, list teaching or assistant roles, awards and scholarships, skills and languages. It can be longer than one page, but every line must be real and relevant. List publications in a standard format, the way papers reference each other.
Mark (papers not yet reviewed) and submitted work honestly. Some destinations prefer a format, such as the CV in parts of Europe, but a clean academic CV is widely accepted.
Common trapsending your industry resume with bullet points about sales targets and no mention of your thesis, grades or research.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- GuideFreePurdue OWL: Graduate School Applications
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
A free, practical guide to statements of purpose and personal statements from a university writing lab
- CourseFreeGoogle Technical Writing Courses
Google
Short free courses that make your statement and proposal clearer and tighter