PhD Motivation Letter for a position in a research group

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Hello every oneI intend to apply for a PhD position offered by a Research Group. My English is not perfect, as i am not a native speaker. i wrote and revised my motivation letter but i am still not too confident to send it. can i get help from you to discover any problems or faults in my motivation letter.

Zeze Uthman · Accepted Answer

*** Group at *** University
October 13, 2014
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am writing to apply for the research assistant (PhD) position in which I am enormously interested, starting in September 2015. My nationality is ***. I speak Arabic and English fluently. Recently I work as a part time teacher assistant at *** University.
In 2010, I graduated from the college of ????*** at *** university. Although I was exposed to a variety of topics in different fields, I found myself more interested in system analysis and logical design, database systems, object oriented programming, and software engineering. During college, I worked hard to be a qualified computer scientist. Upon graduation, I worked as a programmer in the IT department at the National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF) in *** for a year. Programming is always my passion, and I enjoy learning new programming languages and technologies.
After I pursed my master degree in computer science from *** university, I have discovered broader areas. However, I want to reach a point in which I possess proficiency in a specialized area. The Service engineering field fascinated me a lot. So, I have a great ambition to accomplish further research in investigating service operations and processes needed for a new service-based world. I depended on books, published papers, websites, and other resources to gather information regarding cloud computing, ubiquitous service oriented systems, and web services.
I was lucky for undergoing three month training at the *** company in the technical development and quality Assurance department. I worked on a project aimed to provide payment services to trusted customers, agents, and merchants. It connects them to the national switch and hence to other banks. As a result payment operations can be done easily by cardholders from different banks through a number of payment tools. The project allowed me to work closely on applying the service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm implemented through the web service technology. Moreover I found the concept of SOA very interesting, as it has gained popularity in business system environments recently.
My country is recognized as a least developed African country with poor educational infrastructure. Unfortunately there are a small number of well-educated experts and proficient researchers who are identified with polished knowledge in distributed systems. This is due to the lack of funding, technical resources, and support for research. I am confident that if I get a PhD in computer science from *** university, I will contribute to my country’s development.
My next personal objective is to understand how open standards, in particular XML and Internet based web services can be used for implementing SOA in a platform-agnostic fashion in order to gain widespread adoption of ubiquitous systems. I am eager to learn more about the state of the art in SOA-based pervasive computing. In addition I want to highlight my capabilities in identifying and analyzing existing problems, and explore ideas for future research.
I want to apply for the *** PhD scholarship for foreign students. To be eligible, I must provide an admission letter or any other proof that I am being considered for admission. I intend to continue my education in *** university where focus is on the practical usage and development of skills required by employers. Obtaining a quality of PhD in computer science from your esteemed university will strengthen my experience in the field in order to cope up with the fast advancement in technology. I was very delighted to find the opportunity offered by your research group. I will strive to take part in your group, because it reflects my choice of study and there is no equivalent for it at my home university. I am enormously interested in your research topics, as it satisfies my research ambition. My acceptance will be a great transition in my career path, through benefiting from the great educational environment, guidance, and cooperation with the best world academics. The position is a good chance to enrich my knowledge and professional outgrowth in the field of distributed systems. Eventually, it will boost my prospective career by applying and exercising the best known practices and tools in the development of dynamic ubiquitous services.
After I read publications offered on your website, I formed a clear idea about your work nature. Thereby I am confident that I am qualified to contribute in your promising research projects, especially the internet of things and ubiquitous computing implications. Furthermore I am very curious to learn about improving people’s daily tasks through the conjunction of SOA and pervasive computing where diverse devices can be connected together naturally and transparently to serve the end-user’s requests.
In the Future, I am planning to take my career path from academia to the practical world. Software development is my first and last pleasure. In addition I want improve the software industry in my native country and the whole world through promoting modern and advanced information systems.
Thank you very much for considering my application, I look forward to your positive response.

Yours faithfully,
Zeinab Osman

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