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Guidelines for writing a Personal Statement –
Application for MSc Translation Studies
The personal statement helps us decide whether you are right for the MSc programme you have selected but, just as importantly, it helps us decide whether the MSc programme is right for you.
To help us with this, your personal statement should include information in the sections below. An average personal statement should be around 500 words in total.
| Information about your qualifications and experience in translation (if any) and what you can bring to the programme: |
| My qualifications: I hold two bachelor's degrees. I got the first degree in English language in 2015 graduated with a low GPA 1.12 out of 4 The second degree was achieved in English language and translation in 2023 with a full GPA 4 out of 4 with First class honor and earned The Excellence Scientific Award at university level. I want you to present this as a success story and how I struggled to take the first degree but achieve a huge success to take the second degree. Experience: I don’t have any official experience, but I always practice translation by my own since I was an undergraduate student until now. what I can bring to the programme: I need to convince the admission team that I deserve to join this programme based on my history and my desire to dive more in the translation field. |
| An explanation of what you already know about translation and what your expectations are in taking up a postgraduate programme in translation studies: |
| what I already know about translation: I studied legal and business translation, media, technical and scientific translation, consecutive, simultaneous and conference interpreting, and computer assisted translation course. Along with other linguistics courses. Write about some theories and theorists of translation and mention this marvellous book Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice by Rodgers Bell. Write about something from this book and how it added to my knowledge. what your expectations are in taking up a postgraduate programme in translation studies: |
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| An explanation about why you are interested in studying at Edinburgh: |
| Languages available If you choose to work with a language that is not your native language, you will need to have had formal qualifications in it. Please upload relevant certificates for the highest levels you have studied in that language. | Please place an X next to your choice(s) – a maximum of 2 N.B. If applying to work with a Scandinavian language, practical translation will be available from English into Danish, Norwegian OR Swedish and from ALL three Scandinavian languages into English | Which one is your native language? If there is more than one, please mark both with an X |
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| Confirmation Statement | Please place an X in the box below to confirm |
| I understand that the MSc in Translation Studies is not a course in interpreting (oral translation) and does not offer courses in that field. | |
| I understand that the MSc in Translation Studies is designed to take my interest in translation to an advanced level. The MSc contains an important theoretical element and is not solely a translation practice course. |
Further information on this programme and guidance on the application procedures can be found here:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/our-degrees/translation-studies/msc-translation-studies
You need to answer the following questions for your Personal Statement *
This should include why you feel you are qualified to enter the programme and how you think it may affect your career prospects. If you are applying for a Masters programme and your chosen programme has more than one area of specialism or theme you should indicate here which area(s) you wish to specialise in (max 3500 chars - approx. 500 words).
