What is writing sample please any one can explain this

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Anushka Mendjoge · Answer

Hello Srividyarekha!

I found the following information the website of Harvard University.

"The Goal of the Writing Sample:
A writing sample for graduate school primarily serves an evidential function: its purpose is to give evidence
of your qualifications to enter graduate school at the program you’re applying to. Of course the central
way it does so is by being a good piece of philosophical writing, and we’ll spend a bunch of time on that
below. But in every philosophical paper, you need to make choices large and small, and it’s good to keep
in mind what the writing sample is supposed to accomplish in order to help guide these choices.

Logistics of the Writing Sample:
• Most Writing Samples should be 20–25 pages ( 5000–6000 words).
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• Double-spaced for ease of reading and annotating.
• Don’t worry about citation formats or anything like that; so long as an interested reader can figure
out what sources you’re working with, you’re fine.
• The writing sample can be a developed version of a paper you wrote for one of your classes, but it
need not be.
• Write as formally or informally as you feel comfortable (well—no swearing)."

You can refer this for more information.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bernhardnickel/files/grad-apps-ws.pdf

Good luck!