Letter of Motivation

Hi there,

it's depressing, but after four days of working straight on my letter of motivation for a really cool MA I figured my English sucks and got stuck somewhere in the 5th class.

The following is what I was able to steal or produce myself (can be easily pointed out for some reason) and I am thankful for any kind of help. At least for some help leading to something more than just repeating myself:



Dear Sir or Madam,


As a graduate student of Social Science at Bielefeld University in Germany I am now keen to extend my experience for the MA in 4Cities, Unica Euromaster in urban studies.

After finishing school in Germany I decided to pursue a BA in Social Science in order to include the three diciplines of sociology, political science and economics into my studies. This was my prefered choice for several reasons. First, I got trained to solve theoretical problems under the aspect of different theories all focusing on different aspects of society itself. Second I received a widespread empirical background on both quantitative and qualitative research and third the University of Bielefeld focussed on modern sociological processes namely the systems theory under the aspects of globalisation.

While at University, my special interest was empirical social research so I did several research studies to spreaden my experience in this field. Aside from a studie about „stress in the administration“ (final mark: 1,3) and in a refuge for battered women I research project for my thesis in Nepal with the topic: „The disintegration of ethnical homogeneity. An analysis on the basis of a Tibetan community in exile“ (final mark: 2,3). Furthermore globalisation, localisation, organisational sociology and transdiciplinary problem analysing were the main contents of my studies leading to a widespread capacity of solving specific problems such as the analysis of international regimes and organisations which are spread world wide, but also bound to local restrictions.

Still at school I found I had an aptitude for learning languages. As well as English, I studied French later Turkish at the University. I chose French because it is inevitably the key component of communication in successful understanding European and world processes and Turkish as the dicussion on Turkey as part of the European Union highly interests me (alright, sounds too simple).

So far so bad, I know the ending is missing, but I am absolutely not able to make something like a final sentence out of this. It always sounds like something I already said. I'll keep thinking about it though.
Sasha