Table 8 Average step length ratios of the SoP corpora
From: Disciplinary variations in academic promotional writing: the case of statements of purpose
| Â | The Arts Division | The Science Division | Â | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arts | Business | Social Science | Engineering | Science | Total | p value | |
Step 2-B: Research experience | 28.35% (9) | 17.21% (11) | 25.86% (11) | 32.01% (17) | 36.30% (20) | 29.40% (68) | 0.029 |
Step 2-C: Work experience | 16.05% (12) | 21.04% (14) | 19.37% (10) | 22.03% (9) | 14.86% (6) | 18.99% (51) | 0.652 |
Step 2-E: Other experience | 22.68% (13) | 20.51% (17) | 24.13% (13) | 19.43% (8) | 18.05% (6) | 20.55% (57) | 0.884 |
Step 3-B: Positive gains | 15.04% (11) | 11.63% (16) | 15.64% (9) | 10.73% (10) | 6.92% (4) | 12.54% (50) | 0.148 |
Step 3-D: Disciplinary and research reasons | 16.15% (9) | 14.86% (7) | 28.01% (11) | 17.17% (13) | 11.19% (15) | 17.25% (55) | 0.016 |