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Sample Recommendation Letters

Wednesday November 5, 2008
Are you writing (or getting!) a letter of recommendation? What makes for an effective letter? A poor letter? What might a letter from an employer look like as compared with one by a professor?

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November 5, 2008 at 6:51 pm
(1) jh says:

Thanks for this great post. It is often so hard to know who to turn to for letters–obviously professors but there are so many other people that know us and can speak to our talents in an effective way.

jh
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