Any research proposal that contained lifted essays or with incorrect grammar in the personal statement was cancelled by the senior examiner. We had to ask affected students to reexamine their personal statement to remove such highlighted errors.
We managed this by teaching them how to devise a personal statement and by issuing them with an example of a personal statement essay. The research proposal topics have to appear on the opening page of the research proposal. The essay writer must present the research proposal topics to the supervisor for approval before he goes ahead to write the research proposal.
This will assist the writers choose the best research proposal topics on which to generate their research proposal However, in the end of the year, each writer had successfully submitted the research proposal (made up of appropriate personal statement). We presented the proposals to the examiner for final evaluation and each student will get his copy of the research proposal once the examiner is through with the evaluation. Writers need not to call us every time making inquiries about the grades they have scored. It is proving to be very cumbersome handling responding on each writer’s research proposal.
Students undertaking courses related to language and communication may be required to write a paper on personal statement. In most institutions, students to be admitted in these courses write a personal statement expressing their will and reason to undertake the course. This personal statement is meant to gauge the student’s competence in language and grammar. We have had several students fail to write a personal statement detailing their own education profile and other achievements they have made in life.
