Hi JMD,Ottawa_nerd,

The informations you have provided till now have been very useful. I wrote my TOEFL test today and got 270. I am planning for MS in chemical as you people know. Can you people tell me whether this score will be good enough for me to apply for alberta and Weatern Ontario. Thanks for helping me out.

Kalbali.

For TOEFL it is OK.

Hello Ottawa_nerd,

Your threads have been very useful in shaping up my mind for the requirements of getting a MS degree. The information i seek here from you is writing a SOP. I am a final year chemical Engg student as i have stated above. None of the persons i have approached have given me a idea as to how i should go about preparing my SOP. It will be very helpful if you could suggest me some links to get some ideas of writing a good SOP.

If any of you have any ideas of writing a SOP please thread in your mails.

Thanks.

Kalbali,
Good that you asked... Some pesky busbodies, earlier, spoilt this thread when I mentioned something abt SOP.... So here you go....

SOP also known as Statement of Purpose (sometimes known as Research Goals) is an integral part of any application process... How you write that document eventually determines if you get admission or not ! I dont have any specific SOP's as everyone's SOP will be different. However, here are some points to remember when you write that SOP:

1.) As usual, make sure that you write in Good and legible english....Afterall you are applying to a Grad School and not Grad Iskool ! Check the following link
http://www.canadiandesi.ca/read.php?TID=9770" target="_blank">http://www.canadiandesi.ca/read.php?TID=9770
for more information.

2.) Keep it short and to the point. Do not waver from your research goals..If you have want funding from your Professor, you need to specify your research goals. Your goals should overlap with the research goals of the professor(s).

3.) Also insure that you write something abt what you would like to be 5 years down the lane.

4.) If you have publications make a mention about them ! Write how you wrote the paper(s), what were your contributions etc., If you do not have any publications, stress on your academic records. Also include any extra-curricular activities that you are particularly proud about !

These are some key guidelines in writing a successful SOP....

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..so be very very careful !

http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/aug/19ohio.htm" target="_blank">http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/aug/19ohio.htm</a>

Nearly 40 foreign students, including Indians, at a United States university are at the risk of losing their degrees for not properly attributing materials in their research.

More than 30 students from India, China, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia and Thailand -- some even from the United States -- have been accused of plagiarism at the Engineering School of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. But they are not being accused of stealing or manipulating data.

They are being told that proper attributions have not been made in the sections dealing with review of literature leaving the door open to questions if they were intentional or an issue of foreign students not being aware of procedures in writing Master's and Doctoral theses and dissertations.

The students have been told that proper amends would have to be made or they risked losing their degrees.

At least three of the accused students are now supposed to be in their doctoral programmes in the same University and they have been told to first make amends to their Master's work before they can proceed in their doctoral programme.

The work in question of the various students has been over a 20-year period.

Vipul Ranatunga, a former student of engineering at Ohio University and currently a faculty member at Miami University of Ohio, has been accused of no quotation marks or footnotes to indicate that he referred to some seven pages of a Chinese student who got his Master's degree at the Athens campus.

Ranatunga has acknowledged that he took the material but said he did not think he was doing anything wrong as attribution had been given for the author in the text and the bibliography.

But it is just not the foreign students who are in a lot of trouble. Their professors are also in hot water for not properly supervising -- the Mechanical Engineering Department's Chair has resigned and another professor has apparently been told that he will be losing his job. And a faculty review committee has said that plagiarism in the mechanical engineering department at Ohio University has been "rampant and flagrant" for many years.

'There cannot be any tolerance of individuals who participate in this serious misconduct,' the review committee has said in a note to the Provost.

Thomas Matrka of Colombus Ohio who registered full time at Ohio University was responsible for bringing matters to a head. Unable to get his thesis proposal approved the graduate student used the library to get ideas from past theses when he discovered the plagiarism.

Matrka has been quoted in the media as saying that he was frustrated that he could not get his thesis approved 'and you had students who were cheaters moving on'.

Bhavin Mehta served as faculty adviser for 11 theses under scrutiny. The 44-year-old Indian earned his master's and doctoral degrees from OU and joined its faculty in 1988. Since then, he has advised nearly 80 graduate students.

"They were not really intending to copy. They were just ignorant about those kinds of things," said Mehta, who has not only been told to stop advising graduate students but also that his employment contract will not be renewed beyond the current academic year. (Yeah and you were just dozing off !!)


& the Man of Honor himself !

http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~mehta/" target="_blank">http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~mehta/


The other man !
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/01/plagiarism" target="_blank">http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/01/plagiarism</a>
(or is he a snitch ?)

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060816/NEWS01/608160362" target="_blank">http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060816/NEWS01/608160362

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Warning !! SCAM ALERT !!
http://www.canadiandesi.ca/read.php?TID=4169 & http://www.canadiandesi.ca/read.php?TID=1379
This is a Useful Health related Tip
http://www.canadiandesi.ca/read.php?TID=3865
Please visit
http://www.cmje.org/religious-texts/quran/verses/009-qmt.php for some interesting Information ! (Especially 009.005 )

this is very true ON.... plagiarism is a big issue here. We indians are used to copying and refering to other's ideas and work frm back home that it sometimes continues over here too. I used to do that during my undergrad years in India but I had to refrain from it here at UfT.

Congrats to ON for posting such a useful thread. Was so aghast with his bashing of a certain community... sorry group... totally overlooked this thread. Would it not be wonderful if he can change the "Aaayere Gorkhali" type of slogan, with which he signs every post.

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