<p>A professor asked me to send him a copy of my CV and a statement of research interests. What exactly goes into a "statement of research interests"? Is it just my statement of purpose or is it something about what I want to do at the university in the future?</p>
<p>They should be approximately equivalent (statement of purpose and what you want to do)....</p>
<p>My statement of purpose actually discusses a bit about my prior research experiences and how it led me to my research interests. I was just wondering if there was a guideline on how to write a "statement of research interests".</p>
<p>I'm just uncertain as whether or not the discussion of my prior research is part of a proper "statement of research interests".</p>
<p>If you are this worried about it, I would ask a professor you are comfortable with as to what this professor is looking for you to produce. I would give him a brief overview of what I had done already and a description of what I want to achieve research-wise for graduate school.</p>
<p>The professor asking me for my CV and statement is actually at a school I want to get into so I don't know anybody from that university. But I guess I'll ask my old graduate student friend turned professor as to what a "statement of research interest" really consists of...</p>
<p>And I just realized I left my updated version of my SOP at work :\ I hope the professor doesn't take the fact that I took me a weekend to respond as a bad sign...</p>
<p>Did you ask your friend the professor? I'm curious about this myself so if you have an update I'd be interested in hearing it... thanks!</p>
<p>He said just focus more on what you're interested in doing.</p>
<p>I'm still not too sure what the difference is to be honest.</p>
<p>My understanding is this:</p>
<p>Discuss your previous research in terms of how it has led you to your current interests and/or prepared you for grad school in some way. It shouldn't be a resume of what you have done, but you should discuss your path.</p>
<p>If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.</p>
<p>That is what I think a SOR is also, but I also did that for my SOP. Supposedly the SOR is more in depth about your research interests (which I have also done in my SOP). Maybe the structure of my SOP is totally wrong :X</p>
<p>how can the structure of your SOP be wrong when you followed my winning SOP formula? :squint:</p>
<p>because your winning SOP formula turned out to be a winning SOR formula :P</p>