This the instruction from the school : ”
- For Ph.D. applicants: Please provide a sole-authored academic writing sample, roughly 10-30 pages long, that demonstrates your research competence and your ability to produce original scholarship. This might be a thesis chapter, a journal publication, a seminar paper, or something similar. If necessary, edit your paper for length before submitting it with your application. The admissions committee will read your paper to evaluate your writing competence, the clarity of your argument, and the depth of your analysis and insight.”
- I would like to see the paper focuses on the war in Tigray ( Ethiopia) in terms of Rhetoric and conflict, political communication or media. If this too narrow, you can your own original topic in rhetoric or political communication or journalism studies ( of communication). I just want an indepth quality research papar that will make my application compitative.