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If you write recommendation letters for undergraduate students applying for graduate school, internships, and the like, have you ever inclu...

A mid-career reader wants advice about writing a letter as part of the tenure evaluation of a candidate at another institution. In particul...

The other day, less than hour after I had provided a recommendation for an undergraduate, saying in the recommendation (essentially) that t...

The topic of Letters of Reference seems to pop up rather often in the e-mails I get from readers, no matter how much I have already writte...

Today in Scientopia , a discussion of the phenomenon and consequences of Late Letters of Reference.

In Scientopia today, a classic topic: mortals writing letters of reference for mortals.

It is not uncommon for a request for a letter of reference -- for a faculty position or as part of an evaluation for tenure and/or promotion...

Today's post is at Scientopia , where I discuss the following statement, from a real letter of reference sent for a recent candidate for...

As I have been writing letters as part of the tenure and promotion evaluation of assistant professors at other institutions, I have been str...

Requests for letters of evaluation for tenure candidates started arriving during the summer. The process typically starts in the late spring...

You would think that summer would be a time when I did not have to pore over anyone's CV or read letters of reference and such, but no;...

Some of my readers are in the process of selecting Names to put on lists of possible letter writers to comment on their tenure dossiers. So...

An FSP reader has a conundrum. Imagine that you find yourself in this situation (anecdote condensed and edited from the original e-mail): A...

Some applications for open faculty positions require letters of recommendation up-front; some request letters only after there has been a fi...

You might think that I have exhausted the topic of Letters of Recommendation , and perhaps I actually have and don't know it, but someth...

Some colleagues and I recently discussed whether you should agree to write a tenure/promotion letter for someone whose work you don't kn...

Writing letters of reference (or recommendation) is part of the job of being a professor. We write them for undergraduates, graduate student...

Thanks to all who sent submissions to the Letter of Reference contest. Here are some more interesting examples, some of them clearly intenti...

The following are apparently real Letters of Reference, but I think they are worth including here for their entertainment and/or horror valu...

Below is the unanimous choice of the FSP Editorial Board for our favorite of the Letter of Reference Contest submissions. The letter, writte...