Some of the sites below contain models of personal statements. Remember, however, that MODELS are not formulas, so it is unwise to mimic too closely the structure of another person’s statement.
Donald Asher's Graduate Admissions Essays: Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2000)
Mary Tolar's excellent PDF document on preparing Personal Statements.
Writing a Personal Statement, from the Purdue Online Writing Center
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/642/01/
Tips on Writing Scholarship Essays, From Kansas State
Graduate School Statements, University of California Berkeley. This has an especially useful list of WORDS TO AVOID in statements.
http://career.berkeley.edu/Grad/GradStatement.stm
Tips for Writing a Personal Statement, from Carnegie Mellon.
Proposal Writing, The Art of Persuasion, from Holy Cross. This has a detailed set of tips for each of the individual fellowships and it is especially good with information on preparing proposals for the Fulbright.
The Art of Writing Proposals, from the Social Science Research Council, but also generally helpful
http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/the-art-of-writing-proposals/
Proposal Writing: The Business of Science, by Wendy Sanders. This is especially helpful for NIH proposals.
The National Science Foundation?s Guide to Proposal Writing
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/nsf04016_1.htm
