#  What should I provide for a writing sample?  

 



 Your writing sample should demonstrate your strengths in writing, research, and critical analysis—skills that will be directly applicable to academic work at HDS. You can choose to submit:

- An excerpt of an academic paper in any subject area within the humanities or social sciences.
- An adapted piece of professional writing.
- An original work that is based upon a topic that you are interested in studying here at HDS.

 You may reuse a previous work, especially if you feel that it best represents your academic writing abilities. Please provide an excerpt from a larger piece or edit a selection down instead of providing the entire piece and stay within the word limit. You may add a brief note providing the larger context for the piece you choose. Please note that footnotes, bibliographies, or works cited pages do not count toward the overall word limit.



 

 

 



 

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