Cover Letters for Canadian Scholarships, Admissions, or Job Applications

Looking for some awesome scholarship openings and struggling to design an impressive cover letter to accompany
your scholarship documents set?

Don’t worry because we’ve got your back here.

So let’s get started and let us first get our interpretations right. The term motivation letter lacks
understanding from the audience and is often misinterpreted in terms of the content it should contain. So let’s
start with busting some popular myths going around:

Myth # 1: Your Cover Letter is like a resume 

Well, mostly the word that goes around is that a cover letter should be a perfect representation of your resume.
While the cover letter shall be in line with what’s mentioned in the resume but both of these forms are polar
opposites.

A cover letter mainly revolves around your ambition towards a certain position and logical reasoning towards why
you are eligible to grab that particular position and perform well in the role. The tone that a cover letter is
written in shall be professional but it shall contain information regarding the individual to prove why you’re
the perfect fit for the role.

Myth # 2: A Cover Letter carries minimal weight-age

This is one of the most laughable myth that goes around because this is your chance to connect with the person
reading through a human level because skills and experience being important in their own sense do not carry any
human emotion nor portray your personality. So this is your biggest chance to make your way into your favorite
scholarship program and you don’t want to miss out.

What Should be Written in Cover Letter?

This is one of the most frequently asked questions which will definitely resonate with the majority of the
students. While we are all aware of what skills and talents we possess, we all find it hard to spell these into
words (not because we are all too humble) but its human nature.

A cover letter is a single-paged covering document which should contain the following highly important
information:

1) Who Are You? The reader must know who they’re listening to. It shall not be a page with a list of
achievements of a stranger. Here again try to connect on a human level

2) State the position you’re interested in which in this case is your relevant scholarship program

3) And the most important part begins from here. This is where you’ve to prove why you’re the perfect
candidate to land the position. In this part you should delve into your drive and enthusiasm towards the program
and elaborate your relevance and skill-set in regards to that

4) Briefly mention your professional relevance towards the opportunity as well as your top achievements to
further connect with the reader

Steps To Structure Cover Letter:

Structuring your letter is a difficult job and requires utter precision. There are multiple ways to structure
your content which has to be examined in tandem with the tone and style of your writing.

Now the first choice you need to make is whether you go with the old school structure of 3 paragraphs or do you
opt for multiple short paragraphs and build from there.

Afterwards, you need to figure out which style of writing fits with which structure. Talking about the
3-paragraph system it mainly is your classic laid back cover letter which will cover your introduction in the
first paragraph followed by the main body in the second and the closure in the third.

However, exploring the other format can make your letter look more appealing and enable you to briefly talk about
and elaborate on various aspects in a short length also captivating the reader in the process.

Here was our guide to adding an impressive cover letter to your kitty and bagging your dream scholarship. Hope
you enjoyed it and do ask if you’ve any questions.