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Although many personal statements will not include any citation of sources, in some casesparticularly if your work is in the sciences and you need to provide a brief literature reviewyou will need to cite sources at the end of your essay in a References section.
Keep your paper original and valid, leave the quotes in their books and movies. Quotes almost always do more harm than good when they are used in your Personal Statement. They might trigger a plagiarism checker, take up valuable space, and are so cliche they make your writing less credible with their very presence.
There are programs available for applicants to check their own personal statements for plagiarism, but in general, if you have not used any other sources while writing it really should not be an issue.
1. Do you capitalize the word physician assistant? The general rule is no; physician assistant is not capitalized.
A PA personal statement is really a personal essay that offers you a time to shine. The goal is to pique the admissions committee's interest in you, in hopes they will contact you for a school interview. Your PA school wants to learn more about you and your past experiences.
You should use preventive medicine for your essays rather than preventative medicine. Yes, you can say PA instead of typing out the uncapitalized physician assistant every single time, but you should use physician assistant (PA) the first time so that they know what your acronym represents.
Keep your paper original and valid, leave the quotes in their books and movies. Quotes almost always do more harm than good when they are used in your Personal Statement. They might trigger a plagiarism checker, take up valuable space, and are so cliche they make your writing less credible with their very presence.
Writing the statement do's and don'tsDo demonstrate your knowledge of the PA profession. Your essay should make it clear why you are pursuing medicine, and why you have chosen to become a PA specifically. Don't say why you don't want to be a different kind of healthcare provider, write about how you want to be a PA!
And don't rely on someone else's words ditch the opening quotes. Quotations are top of the list of admissions tutors' pet hates. They particularly dislike it if you put a quotation in right at the start and it's even worse if you don't actually explain why it's there. It's your statement, after all.
Consider The "I" Problem: This is a personal statement; using the first person pronoun "I" is acceptable. Writers often feel rather self-conscious about using first person excessively, either because they are modest or because they have learned to avoid first and second person ("you") in any type of formal writing.