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The Importance of incorporating effective writing strategies within a CV

Always worth sending people to OWL to see examples and formatting for common academic genres.

What is a CV? How is it different than a resume? What should I include? Is there a standard format? How should I enter my work description entries? Find OWL's answers here!

This handout provides an overview of strategies for writing an effective curriculum vitae. This topic is particularly important for graduate students who are entering the academic job market for the first time

This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/). When printing this page, you must include the entire legal notice at bottom. Summary: This handout provides an overview of strategies for writing an effective curriculum vitae. This page is a great starting point because it gives basic information about the CV. It also provides links to additional sources.

Listed below are the dozen plus categories of information, that are most often included in a CV (It is also useful to think of them as modules that can be moved around to suit particular openings and circumstances). It would be rare for someone to use all of them in a single CV.

I like how the author of this article from the University of California Berkeley posted an example after each description. I noticed that many of the articles that I read about CVs gave similar information, but the layout of this article was more effective.