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GRADUATE ASSISTANT APPLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
DUE: JANUARY 23rd
APPLICANT INFORMATION:
Name
E Number
MA Program
Email
Phone
Address
Circle one:
CHL
CW
LING
LITR
WRCM
Cell phone
Undergraduate School
Degree completed (or in progress)
Undergraduate GPA
If you are a senior, answer the following questions:
How many credit hours in English have you earned?
How many credits hours in English do you have left?
If you have taken graduate classes please answer the following questions:
How many graduate credit hours have you completed in English so far?
What is your GPA in your graduate coursework?
Review the GA Eligibility Chart at http://www.emich.edu/english/graduate/ga.php
Check off the positions for which you would like to be considered below:
First-Year Writing Graduate Assistant
University Writing Center Consultant
Children’s Literature Large Lecture TA
Literature Large Lecture TA
ENGL 300W Teaching Assistant
Special Projects: JNT, Bathhouse, NWP
(Circle the relevant one)
Linguistics Large Lecture TA
Linguistics Research Projects
List the names, titles and contact information of the people you have asked to submit
recommendations:
Name
Title
Email
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PLEASE PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. ACADEMIC PREPARATION
• If you are an undergraduate or have a Bachelor’s degree list the upper-level
courses you have taken that relate to your chosen graduate program. Include the
grades you earned where possible.
• If you are a graduate student or have taken graduate courses list the graduate
courses you will have completed by the coming fall semester. Include the grades
you earned where possible.
Title of Course
Grade
2. ADDITIONAL DISTINCTIONS
• List any relevant academic distinctions you have earned
• Identify any extracurricular or professional experience relevant to your
professional and academic goals (such as, tutoring, teaching, editorial work,
conference presentations, etc.)
3. GA STATEMENT OF INTENT
Submit a short essay, 300-500 words, describing your academic and professional goals
and conveying a sense of yourself as a potential graduate assistant: your special
aptitudes and qualifications for a graduate assistantship more generally, as well as your
reasons for applying for the specific GA assignments you chose (and any other
information you feel is relevant).
SUBMIT ALL GA APPLICATION MATERIALS TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
GRADUATE COORDINATOR
612 PRAY-HARROLD
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERITY
YPSILANTI, MI 48197