As I start to prewrite my application I am going back and forth about whether or not I should include time I spent as a research assistant for my major's department. I was a religion major and worked on two projects that ended up being published as books. I am not credited as an author in these books but was mentioned by name in the acknowledgements section.
One of the books I helped with ended up being used in the foundation curriculum for a required course sequence at the university. The other was published as an academic work for other scholars.
I'm trying to figure out if 1) this should be categorized as "research" even though it isn't science research and 2) if it is allowed to be counted as such when I also received credit for this work on my transcript. And 3) I'm trying not to emphasize religion in my application and am worried that adding this experience might affect that or bring attention to that being my initial undergraduate major.
This was also 10 years ago and I have plenty of experiences to write about. So if I don't/shouldn't include it that's not the end of the world.
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One acknowledgement is: As editors, we wish to offer our thanks to our colleagues in the <university department redacted>, who worked so hard to produce such a rich set of chapters, and to <my name redacted>, our faithful editorial assistant who carried an especially heavy load on all our behalf.
The other: To my research assistants <My name> and <My peer's name>, for helping me track down answers to all kinds of questions...
One of the books I helped with ended up being used in the foundation curriculum for a required course sequence at the university. The other was published as an academic work for other scholars.
I'm trying to figure out if 1) this should be categorized as "research" even though it isn't science research and 2) if it is allowed to be counted as such when I also received credit for this work on my transcript. And 3) I'm trying not to emphasize religion in my application and am worried that adding this experience might affect that or bring attention to that being my initial undergraduate major.
This was also 10 years ago and I have plenty of experiences to write about. So if I don't/shouldn't include it that's not the end of the world.
Edit:
One acknowledgement is: As editors, we wish to offer our thanks to our colleagues in the <university department redacted>, who worked so hard to produce such a rich set of chapters, and to <my name redacted>, our faithful editorial assistant who carried an especially heavy load on all our behalf.
The other: To my research assistants <My name> and <My peer's name>, for helping me track down answers to all kinds of questions...
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