讨论一下写coverletter 的必要性

准备寄材料，check了一下要寄的东西，突然纠结于是否要写cover letter。于是呼上网搜一下：
以前一直以为是把你的送得材料写一下，原来发现那是checklist.
关于coverletter的比较好的解释：http://bbs.gter.net/bbs/viewthre ... ghlight=&page=2
注意第13楼。

cover letter是说明申请意图引起审材料人注意的信，求职和申请研究生的时候都用得到。可以写成PS的精简版，有一些其他地方写起来不合适的内容也可以写在上面，比如（我们系招生老师建议的）如果你四年间成绩有起伏，尤其是如果有段时间成绩非常低，可以在cover letter上简要的解释一下。

也就是PS的补充。。。。
但，是否在某种程度上一种累赘~因为又出现了一个同PS差不多样式的东西，committee在看了N多材料之后会不会看的云里雾里~~？

下面是sample cover letter  From http://www.cgu.edu/pages/923.asp

Stanford Humanities Center, Mariposa House
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-8630
November 4, 1996

Professor Cristanne Miller, Chair
English Department
Pomona College
140 W. 6th Street
Claremont, CA 91711

Dear Professor Miller:
I am writing to apply for the assistant professorship in British literature of the Victorian period announced in the MLA Job Information List. I am currently completing a Ph.D. at Stanford University in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature. My dissertation is entitled "Immense Debtorship: Originality, Literary Property, and Deficit Poetics in British Letters, 1840-1940."

The dissertation investigates the twin discourses of aesthetic and economic value in post-Romantic Britain. My inquiry focuses on originality and imitation--terms that have traditionally belonged to a purely literary domain--in order to implicate them in extra-literary discourses. I illustrate how the modern notion of originality not only appears, but evolves in relation to market forces, economic theory, and the legal developments they underwrite. After linking the cardinal Romantic virtue of originality to classical economic labor theories of value, I trace the nineteenth-century transition from classical political economy to the "marginalist" economics that flourished during the 1870's. This shift from the social scene of production to the individual scene of consumption, I claim, sponsors a concurrent aesthetic shift away from the productivist literary value of originality, with its attendant notions of inspiration, spontaneity, individual genius.

The result is a growing willingness at late-century to imitate, borrow, and even plagiarize--a kind of latter-day neoclassicism that culminates in the canny appropriations of the high modernists. This growth-industry in literary debt, furthermore, is licensed by the gradual decriminalizing of financial insolvency and the institutionalizing of consumer credit during the late nineteenth century: deficit economics begets a "deficit poetics." Many Victorian writers paired debtorship with vampirism, on the grounds that both constituted a necessary pact with evil; my chapter on Eliot's poetry and George Viereck's 1907 novel The House of the Vampire explores the theme and practice of deficit poetics in light of this pairing. Profligate literary debtorship also operates, I argue, as a counter-tradition to the copyright laws solidifying during the period. And for two of the principle figures in this counter-tradition--the Irishmen Oscar Wilde and James Joyce--deficit poetics works as a colonial and post-colonial retort to the British tradition of private annexation embodied in copyright. Contrary to many formalist views, then, there is a politics of intertextuality. By concluding with a look at some late-twentieth-century intellectual property questions (copyright extension bills, electronic media laws, the power of patents to protect corporate appropriations from developing nations), I suggest that mythologies of originality still have considerable ethical and political repercussions in the present. Having written three out of five chapters, I expect to submit the finished thesis in June of 1997.

My scholarly interests range widely, from the history of law and economics to turn-of-the-century sexology to Irish literature and ethnography. In a subsequent project, I plan to research Victorian ideas of order--in both artistic genres and ethnographic taxonomies like Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor--and how they inform a little-theorized aspect of certain modernist texts: the inventory. In addition, I hope to carry my interests in both Victorian and modernist literature into the classroom. The conventional divide between the two periods too often results in oversimplifications--imputing, say, a gritty materialism to Victorian fiction and a serene formalism to modernist writing. I believe I can help students see not only the ruptures, but the continuities between nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures and cultures.

My teaching philosophy reflects my interests in collaborative authorship. Instead of the "full frontal teaching" method of large lectures of autocratic seminars, I prefer student-centered teaching that encourages learning by both students and teachers. I favor classroom dynamics that permit dialogue and foster a degree of student input as to curricula and grading criteria. And I like students to think about the class as a community. This means that in both composition and literature classes, I have students spend a fair amount of time in smaller groups in which they not only talk and think together, but write together. In keeping with this emphasis on process, I have used the portfolio grading method in my writing courses, and have been pleased by enthusiastic student reactions. I would be happy to send class syllabi and student evaluations on request.

I have enclosed a copy of my curriculum vitae and a writing sample excerpted from my chapter on the politics of literary property in Wilde. My dossier will arrive under separate cover from the Stanford Career Planning and Placement Center. I will gladly provide any other supporting materials upon request. I plan to attend the MLA convention in Washington D.C. this December, and would be pleased to meet with you there or elsewhere at your convenience. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Paul K. Saint-Amour

Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-8630
(415) xxx-xxxx

现在一般都网推，哪有那么多材料要寄，觉得没啥必要

人家这是assistant professorship啊

留学申请除了学校点明让你寄的东西外，其他的人家都不看的，直接扔掉。
我觉得checklist就足够了，甚至都没啥必要。不过是方便小蜜对应ID处理而已

多谢两楼的建议~

基本上就是起到check list 的作用~ 和求职的时候用的cover letter是完全不同的。

Graduate Admissions
Graduate life center at Donald Brown
XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Dear Graduate Admission Committee:

I would like to apply for your Ph. D Program in department of computer science. Please find enclosed my application packet for Ph. D Program and financial aid. I enclose several original materials and copies of the following:

        Official undergraduate transcript
        Official certificate of bachelor degree
        Copy of TOEFL score
        Copy of GRE general score

I send the copies of TOEFL and GRE test score in case you might not receive the official scores from ETS before the deadline, please forgive me using the copies as a reference.

Please email me if you have queries regarding my application.

不是这样写吗，写袋子里有什么东西就行吗？

回复 8# amazon198596

貌似有的学校需要纸质的letter of recommendation
另，有一个细节的问题，要是把第二条改为 certification of diploma 好不好呢
只有bachelor degree, 那graduation certificate 呢

呃。。。。一直把所谓的checklist当成cover letter的路过，材料已经都寄了，不管了~