Personal Statement help?

I'm writing a personal statement for Linguistics, and I refer to David Crystal 3 seperate times (once when talking about a pivotal point in my college education, once when discussing a research project and another time when simply writing about a book of his that I learned a lot from).

I can't find any advice online which discourages talking about one person multiple times, so I don't know if it would be disapproved or not, but could anyone clarify in case it would be a negative thing for my personal statement? Thank you!

I'm writing a personal statement for Linguistics, and I refer to David Crystal 3 seperate times (once when talking about a pivotal point in my college education, once when discussing a research project and another time when simply writing about a book of his that I learned a lot from).

I can't find any advice online which discourages talking about one person multiple times, so I don't know if it would be disapproved or not, but could anyone clarify in case it would be a negative thing for my personal statement? Thank you!

Hello,

Personally, I wouldn’t consider it to be a negative thing if you’re really passionate about David Crystal. Lots of university lecturers and students spend the time to study one person while they’re writing books or doing projects; one of my lecturers recently published a book on just Jane Austen, so there’s definitely no shame in it!

However, if you’ve only referred to one singular book, rather than a range of David Crystal publications then you might start running into the issue subbhy mentioned about a lack of research into your subject. While inherently not a bad thing to talk about one author, make sure you utilise every word you write about them and talk about a range of ideas/novels in those words!

Hope this helps,
Dom