DD has been working on her personal statement for university. As many will know it's hard work - sum up your life, ambitions, motivation and experience in 4000 characters including spaces (about 700 words).
I've been acting as a sounding board and helping her to edit it down from 6000+ characters without losing any of the key messages. She's now on draft 10 and the end is in sight.
Last night I was conscious that we'd been talking about it a lot and DH might be feeling excluded so suggested that she ask for his input. He sat at the computer, read the first paragraph and said 'I'm not sure you should start with this word'. I suggested, nicely, that it would be really useful if he could read through once for content and then we could talk in more detail about style and so he did. But he then went into defensive mode and I know I'm going to get it in the neck at some point about jumping down his throat.
But WIBU? I didn't jump down his throat and I did try to say it nicely but after all DD's (and my) hard work counting characters, considering alternative words, making sure relevant points were included it wasn't exactly helpful to get a criticism after reading just one paragraph.
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UCAS personal statement and 'helpful' input
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whatdoiknowanyway · 14/10/2011 09:37
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