博士套磁信該怎么寫？速來收藏~

又到金秋10月，豐收的日子，準(zhǔn)備博士申請(qǐng)的同學(xué)們，你們都做好套磁的準(zhǔn)備了嗎？套磁信對(duì)于博士的申請(qǐng)起到至關(guān)重要的作用，毫不夸張地說一封好的套磁信能夠增加你博士申請(qǐng)的成功率。而8-12月份為套磁的集中時(shí)間，那么套磁信應(yīng)該寫什么？需要注意什么？什么樣的套磁信才能吸引到教授？今天，我們一起來看看~

在下筆之前，我們先來看看學(xué)校對(duì)于套磁信都有什么樣的要求。下面列舉幾個(gè)比較具備代表性的學(xué)校作說明~

一、UCL大學(xué)對(duì)套磁信的內(nèi)容要求：
Your email should answer the following:
1.Are you a UK/EU or overseas student? 
2.Where are you from? 
3.What qualifications do you have, from which institution?
4.What were your grades?
5.Do you have any research experience? If so, what?
6.Have you published any research?
7.How will you fund your studies?

二、KCL大學(xué)對(duì)套磁信的要求：
1.A short message explaining your background, research interests and why you are interested in undertaking a PhD
2.An explanation of why you think they are the right supervisor for your project, demonstrating your familiarity with their research work
3.A copy of your CV
4.An early draft of your research proposal (usually about 1 page). Have a look at Section 3 for details on what to include in your proposal.
另外學(xué)校也表示，如果你的套磁信沒有以上這些內(nèi)容，you may not get a response to your email。另外針對(duì)可以套多少位教授，學(xué)校也做了說明：可以同時(shí)套幾個(gè)教授，但是請(qǐng)不要同時(shí)套超過4個(gè)教授。It is fine to send queries to more than one supervisor, but please do not send blanket email requests to more than four academics at a time. 同時(shí)學(xué)校也貼心提醒，如果一周內(nèi)沒有收到教授的回復(fù)，可以發(fā)個(gè)提醒。如果還是沒有得到回復(fù)，也歡迎你繼續(xù)申請(qǐng)，這種情況也是會(huì)得到錄取的考慮的，并且在申請(qǐng)的時(shí)候點(diǎn)名你喜歡的教授名稱。

三、University of Strathclyde大學(xué)對(duì)套磁信的內(nèi)容要求：
Youll need to send:
1.a covering letter outlining your areas of interest and how they will contribute to our current research interests
2.a research proposal of around 1,000 words; please use our Postgraduate Research Proposal Outline and attach this with your application
3.a current CV
4.an indication of your funding arrangements or whether youre looking for a scholarship

大家在看完以上的內(nèi)容之后，大致對(duì)一個(gè)套磁信應(yīng)該包括什么內(nèi)容，發(fā)送郵件需要附帶哪些材料有了初步的了解。所以為了提高套磁的成功率，哈魯提醒同學(xué)們?cè)谔状胖埃瑒?wù)必去目標(biāo)院校了解清楚各個(gè)學(xué)校對(duì)于套磁都有什么樣的要求，可千萬不要因?yàn)楹鲆暳诉@一點(diǎn)而影響到套磁的結(jié)果哦。

另外貼心的小編還給同學(xué)們整理了澳大利亞一位教授對(duì)于套磁信的建議，同學(xué)們一定要看準(zhǔn)不要踩雷哦!

1.With all the bad English, impoliteness and lack of any detail, these types of requests get deleted even before I get to the close. One recent e-mail even addressed me as “Dear Sir Hubert Wilkins …”
在套磁信的稱呼上一定一定要注意！如果教授有Ph.D degree，叫Dr. 是最好的，也可以叫professor，然而大部分有Dr. degree 的教授相比Professor會(huì)更喜歡你稱呼他們?yōu)镈r. 如果是associate professor千萬不能寫associate professor，一律寫Dr. 或 professor. Mr./Sir這樣的稱呼就有點(diǎn)嘲諷沒有PhD學(xué)位的意思了，這類是教授最最反感的稱呼方式。

2.Perhaps most importantly, it is essential that you write to someone with approximately the correct expertise in your area of interest. I could list hundreds of e-mails from students requesting supervision for projects in electrical engineering, agronomy, cellular function or toxicity trials. Sorry, folks – I don’t work in these areas. I know I’m a bit of a generalist, but these people are stretching the fabric of reality a little too far.

If it looks like a form letter, it probably is a form letter. In other words, if I can’t tell that you have specifically targeted me for my expertise and track record, I’m not going to give you a second thought. Take some time to peruse prospective supervisor CVs, and invest even a few sentences on how their interests align with your own. Most of the information you seek will be available online, so please, do a little research! After all, you will be doing research for a PhD, so if you can’t even research your supervisor correctly, you have no hope of garnering a positive response.
在套磁之前一定要充分了解教授的興趣方向，套磁信一定要有針對(duì)性

3.Have a very clear idea of the area you want to research for your PhD. Saying something like “I’m interested in sharks” or “I find conservation biology fascinating” is woefully insufficient. Remember that point about research? Do some, and find a research question that you deem interesting. Think about what’s already been done in the field and do a little background reading. I would never expect a fully fledged proposal at the initial contact stage, but I do expect you to know roughly what hypotheses you’d like to test.
在套磁信上需要表現(xiàn)出你對(duì)未來的研究有一個(gè)很清晰的想法。不能僅僅提留在“say”的層面，要“show”出你對(duì)這個(gè)領(lǐng)域的了解。想想這個(gè)領(lǐng)域已經(jīng)做了什么，并做一些背景閱讀。教授不要求你現(xiàn)在就要有一個(gè)完全成熟的研究計(jì)劃，但期待學(xué)生大致知道自己想要驗(yàn)證的假設(shè)是什么

4.If you aren’t the best writer of English, find someone who can help you write your introductory e-mail properly. I’ve supervised people of various competencies in English, and provided they work hard and endeavour to improve, lack of English prowess is rarely a fatal problem, at least at the beginning of the degree. However, if you demonstrate straight away that you can’t write English well enough to save your life and/or you are merely being lazy, I’m probably not going to respond to you. If you genuinely follow the guidelines above and still make a few mistakes (even native speakers do), I’m not going to bin your e-mail on that component alone; however, it’s not a good look right from the outset if you make a heap of silly spelling and grammatical mistakes.
注意表達(dá)，不要出現(xiàn)低級(jí)的語法錯(cuò)誤

5.If you’re applying from overseas, you have to be at least vaguely cognisant that scholarships don’t grow on trees. In other words, most people I know don’t have millions of disposable dollars/euros/pounds just sitting around in a bank account waiting for the next lucky contestant to say ‘fund me’. In my specific case, if you do not have Australian citizenship, then asking me to take you on ‘in one of my projects’ is a na?ve pipe-dream. You have to do the ground work and look into how you might get funding. Yes, we do have international scholarship schemes in Australia, and yes, some universities can waive overseas fees. But as you can probably imagine, these are extremely competitive and are far from guaranteed, even for the best students. Unless you are independently wealthy, you better have some ideas about from where you potential funding will come. Don’t be discouraged, however – most of the students I’ve taken on over the years are non-Australians. The funding exists, but you (a) have to be good and (b) have to do the legwork to have a shot at getting it.
不要隨便提及博士生獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金這個(gè)敏感的問題，至少第一封套磁信不建議提

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