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Polliu16 Posted 10 years ago
Letter Writing

Motivation letter Erasmus Plus traineeship

Hi everybody! This is my very first question in the forum. I'm writing here to have some advices about my Erasmus+ traineeship motivation letter. What I should do is to ask a gallery/museum to pick me as apprentice. I'm obviously a BA history of art student Emotion: smile from Italy.
Please forgive my mistakes in the letter and just let me know if it is a complete disaster! Emotion: smile
Thank you for your patience, looking forward for your response.

To whom it may concerns,

My name is Giulia ++++a, I’m a nineteen years old student currently attending the third year of a BA degree in history of art in Rome, at La Sapienza University.

I am writing in reference to the Erasmus Plus Europe financed program of traineeship abroad as an awarded student, with the aim to introduce myself as a trainee applicant for Your institution/Gallery/Museum. With this brief presentation I wish to hit this target .

Being deeply keen on art has always been part of me. Therefore, when I was younger, I thought that my passion and sensitivity together with my good intuitions would have been my strong suits and the keys to achieve good results at university. However, my experience ended up to reveal me something different.

I could write You about the several courses and exams I have had during these three years, which form the basis of my historical artistic knowledge. Ranging from ancient times up to nowadays, my studies have provided me a complete panoramic gaze on different artistic periods, which gave me a good overall competence in the field, with a personal preference towards modern and contemporary art.

But focusing my attention on this sole element would mean to miss the real point of my brief but intense career and what I definitely advocate to make the difference in my experience from other students.

In other words the most important lesson I learnt was the necessity to educate my great passion with discipline and precision, which I discovered the best way to exploit my potentials to the fullest. A precise methodical approach has therefore been my philosophy, which I would recognize in a Kant’s famous quote:
“categories without intuitions are empties but intuitions without categories are blind.”

Since “categories without intuitions are empties”, I perceive that garner the skill of a judicious and exact learning ability is still not enough.
What I believe to be a truly commitment to excellence is an unceasing resolution and dedication in spreading the spectra of the basic knowledge provided by given courses with complementary critic lectures. Winckelmann, Ruskin, Fiedler, Hildebrand, Baudelaire, Warburg, Panofsky, Gombrich, Hauser, Schapiro, Greenberg, Adorno and many others have been true mentors to me.

I have indeed tried to grasp the essence of their studies, which I consider to be the incitement to cultivate my own critic wit and brilliant intelligence. That extra mile that permits to go one step further, like they did, and to mould a great art historian.

As You would desume from my words, I’ve been having an authentically abstract and theoretically-shaped education, which genuinely reflects an Italian mindset.
After all art it self has either its abstract and concrete entity.

But this is only one facet of what I perceive as a good art historian.
The ultimate goal I expect from this Erasmus Plus experience is to succeed in combining my abstract knowledge with everyday reality of museum and artworks.

I’m confident I would honor this opportunity, while paving my way for the future in which I hopefully envisage a brilliant art historian.
  

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You've posted this on at least one other forum. Please don't do that. This just wastes our time; we are all volunteers on these forums.

  • You've posted this on at least one other forum.
  • Please don't do that.
  • This just wastes our time; we are all volunteers on these forums.
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You've posted this on at least one other forum. Please don't do that. This just wastes our time; we are all volunteers on these forums.

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/240982-Presentation-letter-for-Erasmus-program-Traineeship
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I've just erased the thread from the other forum. I apologize but I didn't know it wasn't permitted. Could you please help with the letter?
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I suggest you rewrite it in a more direct, clear and easy-to-understand manner. Cut out the waffle and focus on your own achievements (curricular and otherwise), strengths, interests, aspirations and career goals. Do that, and I'd be glad to help.

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