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发帖数: 489 | 1 Guidelines for writing Recommendation Letters
1. Use the letterhead of his or her organization;
2. Describe briefly his or her credentials and present position and how
you come to know each other;
3. Describe in specific detail what achievement you have made and how you
made it. The letter MUST use 2 or more of the following transitive verbs:
“developed, disclosed, discovered, found out, identified, revealed,
composed, synthesized, demonstrated…”.
4. Describe the logical relationship between your achievement and its
significance to science and to society. For instance: You found a
mechanism that destroys cancer suppresser. Because cancer is the second
killer in US; therefore your research result is a contribution to US health
care improvement. You missed the causal link: “Cancer is fatal only when it
invades healthy cells. The suppresser prevents cancer from invading
healthy cells. When suppresser is destroyed, cancer invades healthy cells
and causes death. Your discovery of the suppresser-destroying mechanism
will lead to finding a way of protecting the cancer suppresser so as to save
patients’ life by preventing cancer from invading healthy cells.” You
must say out this causal relationship and should not take it for granted
that a lay person understands as well as professional peers all the concepts
in your letter.
5. Describe your certain qualifications that cannot be articulated in
recruitment advertising or cannot be evidenced by possessing academic degree
or experience. (e.g. He has a keen sense of awareness in connecting two
otherwise unrelated phenomena that others would have easily missed)
6. Provide a general conclusion regarding your ability or achievement,
using expressions like: extraordinary, outstanding, exceptional,
distinguished, one of the very few/best, for the first time in this
profession, and the like to indicate you are among the best in your
profession
7. Please DO NOT use the wording like “trainee, helped, mastered basic
techniques,” or other wording to describe you as a STUDENT or your
performance as a student in classroom. DO describe you as a Research
Assistant in Laboratory. The emphasis is on your Work Not on your study.
8. Say what would happen (to your project) if you are not allowed to
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Guidelines for writing Recommendation Letters
1. Use the letterhead of his or her organization;
2. Describe briefly his or her credentials and present position and how
you come to know each other;
3. Describe in specific detail what achievement you have made and how you
made it. The letter MUST use 2 or more of the following transitive verbs:
“developed, disclosed, discovered, found out, identified, revealed,
composed, synthesized, demonstrated…”.
4. Describe the logical relationship between your achievement and its
significance to science and to society. For instance: You found a
mechanism that destroys cancer suppresser. Because cancer is the second
killer in US; therefore your research result is a contribution to US health
care improvement. You missed the causal link: “Cancer is fatal only when it
invades healthy cells. The suppresser prevents cancer from invading
healthy cells. When suppresser is destroyed, cancer invades healthy cells
and causes death. Your discovery of the suppresser-destroying mechanism
will lead to finding a way of protecting the cancer suppresser so as to save
patients’ life by preventing cancer from invading healthy cells.” You
must say out this causal relationship and should not take it for granted
that a lay person understands as well as professional peers all the concepts
in your letter.
5. Describe your certain qualifications that cannot be articulated in
recruitment advertising or cannot be evidenced by possessing academic degree
or experience. (e.g. He has a keen sense of awareness in connecting two
otherwise unrelated phenomena that others would have easily missed)
6. Provide a general conclusion regarding your ability or achievement,
using expressions like: extraordinary, outstanding, exceptional,
distinguished, one of the very few/best, for the first time in this
profession, and the like to indicate you are among the best in your
profession
7. Please DO NOT use the wording like “trainee, helped, mastered basic
techniques,” or other wording to describe you as a STUDENT or your
performance as a student in classroom. DO describe you as a Research
Assistant in Laboratory. The emphasis is on your Work Not on your study.
8. Say what would happen (to your project) if you are not allowed to
continue your current work.
【在 j*****a 的大作中提到】
: Guidelines for writing Recommendation Letters
: 1. Use the letterhead of his or her organization;
: 2. Describe briefly his or her credentials and present position and how
: you come to know each other;
: 3. Describe in specific detail what achievement you have made and how you
: made it. The letter MUST use 2 or more of the following transitive verbs:
: “developed, disclosed, discovered, found out, identified, revealed,
: composed, synthesized, demonstrated…”.
: 4. Describe the logical relationship between your achievement and its
: significance to science and to society. For instance: You found a
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