Download or read book How to Write Successful Letters of Recommendation written by Kimberly Sarmiento and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of recommendation are a part of every standard school or job application. As an employer, professor, colleague, peer, or friend, chances are that at one point or another, you will be asked to put a person on paper and every word counts. How to Write Successful Letters of Recommendation is your one-stop source for painting the perfect picture in just one short letter. You will learn everything you need to know about writing the perfect letter of recommendation that will get your friend, colleague, or student accepted or hired. The most effective letters of recommendation are accurate, succinct, descriptive, and powerful, and include realistic evaluations of performance and capability. With ideas about how to start your letter and topics to include, this complete guide will teach you how to do just that, as you construct the perfect letter from start to finish. Outlined in ten easy steps, this complete guide gives you the tools you need to write reference letters that your employees, colleagues, students, and friends will appreciate. This book is filled with tips and tricks for personalizing the letter and making your friend, student, employee, or coworker shine. With a word bank of powerful phrases and descriptive words, you ll have everything you need to make your letter stand out at your fingertips. Sample letters of recommendation are also included, along with explanations of why each one is effective and tips for replicating these letters in just minutes. You will learn about the different types of recommendation letters, from employment to academic to volunteer, and how to direct your letter to the appropriate audience. You ll even learn what to do if someone you haven t worked with closely asks you to be a reference, or how to deal with being asked for hundreds of recommendations at once. This exhaustively researched book will even teach you how to politely avoid writing letters for those people you aren t quite comfortable recommending. The Companion CD-ROM is filled with templates, examples, word banks, and worksheets, so that you can easily learn to verify experience, confirm competence, build credibility, and bolster confidence with just a simple letter. A recommendation is more than just a letter; it s often make-or-break in a candidate s application for school, volunteering, or employment. With the step-by-step instructions and writing guidelines in this book, you will learn how to write introductions; opening statements; the body, including a well-written, vivid assessment of character and work ethic; and a strong conclusion. This new book will also teach you how to appropriately sign your letter, and will provide you with tips of re-reading and editing it to make sure you gave an effective recommendation. We spent hundreds of hours interviewing high school teachers, college professors, employers, and more who have nailed the art of composing effective communications. With How to Write Successful Letters of Recommendation, your employees, colleagues, students, and friends will see you as their go-to source to helping them succeed in their next big venture.

Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Download or read book How to Write a Great Reference Letter written by and published by Lyle MacPherson. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Write Powerful Letters of Recommendation written by Susan Whalley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice and suggestions to educators on how to write powerfulletters of recommendation for students with post-secondary plans, and featuresfifty-two sample letters that highlight the special skills or qualities ofdifferent types of students.

Download or read book How to Write Reference Letters written by Dianna Booher and published by Booher Research Institute. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time to time, your friends, relatives, and business associates will need you to write character references, letters of recommendation, introductions to business colleagues, reference letters to college admission boards and committees, and nominations for awards. Writing that letter or email puts your friend, family member, or colleague in the limelight—and banks a favor for your own future. So don’t let that task of writing a great reference letter or email keep you from helping someone who can benefit greatly from your generous support. Let us help you with guidelines, alternate phrases, and apology templates ready to personalize! Make the reference letter writing process fast and easy with this professionally written package of ready-to-go recommendation and reference letters for friends or business associates. You’ll find letters and emails for these special situations: Types of Reference Letters and Emails and Recommendation Letters and Notes: Supplying References for Students Supplying References for Graduate School Supplying References for Employees—Suitable Supplying References for Employees—Unsuitable Supplying Character References for Friends Introducing Relative to Potential Employer Nominating Candidate for Award/Recognition Recommending Guest Speaker Recommending Tenure Requesting Job References Requesting Personal Character References Declining to Supply Character Reference Declining to Supply Job References Declining to Make an Introduction How to Use These Example Reference Letters and Email Package You have two choices. 1. Download the PDF package and select the sample thank you letter you need. Then copy and paste it into Microsoft Word or any other word processor. Send it out. 2. Read samples to “get the flavor” of what the thank you letter or note should say. Then “pick and choose” sentences you like to use in composing your own thank you letter or note. Total Number of Letters and Emails: 35 Total Number of Situations/Topics: 20 If you need a reference letter quickly to do a favor for a friend or business associate––and you want to get the words just right without wasting valuable time––we can help you!! Award-winning author of 49 books (published by Simon and Schuster/Pocket Books, Random House/Ballantine, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Warner, and Thomas Nelson), Dianna Booher provides just the right words with these ready-to-go, business reference samples and character reference letters.

Download or read book Scientific Teaching written by Jo Handelsman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable. HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.

Download or read book How to Write Recommendation Letters written by Shaun Fawcett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How To Write Recommendation Letters - Power Tips and Phrases To Write Any Reference Letter.This unique how-to manual with links to multiple real-life recommendation letter templates is a powerful resource that will enable you to quickly and effectively write ANY type of recommendation letter or reference letter for any situation.Unlike most other resource books in this niche, this particular how-to manual goes beyond just writing letters of recommendation and reference for admission to college and university programs. Instead, it covers the writing of ALL types of recommendation letters and reference letters for ALL situations: personal, business, character, employment, AND college admission.Here's what you will discover in this valuable recommendation letter resource book:=> The differences and similarities between recommendation letters and reference letters.=> How you can determine whether you need to write a reference letter or recommendation letter.=> Writing style and strategy tips for writing each different type of recommendation letter.=> Formatting and length considerations for composing all recommendation and reference letters.=> How to easily adapt pre-written recommendation and reference letters to suit your needs.=> More than 150 Recommendation Power Phrases to use in whatever letters you need to write.=> Opening Statements; what they are and how to start your letter effectively with them.=> Assessment Statements: what they are and how to phrase them for maximum impact.=> Closing Statements: what they are and how to word them appropriately.=> How to write and format Employment related Recommendation letters.=> How to write and format Employment related Reference letters.=> How to write and format College Admission related Recommendation letters.=> How to write and format College Admission related Reference letters.=> How to write and format Character Reference letters.=> How to write and format General Reference letters.=> How to write and format Commendation Letters.=> How to write and format Performance Evaluation Letters.IN ADDITION this ebook contains IN-CONTEXT HYPERLINKS that will take the reader directly on the Net to actual fully-formatted sample templates of whichever type of letter they are seeking.The contents of this e-book is based on the same author's long-time best selling paperback titled Instant Recommendation Letter Kit - How To Write Winning Letters of Recommendation, which is widely considered to be the number one resource on the planet for writing recommendation letters and reference letters for ALL situations.If you need to write ANY type of recommendation letter or reference letter, this e-book is the definitive resource on that subject.

Download or read book Dear Committee Members written by Julie Schumacher and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Post A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms. Don’t miss Julie Schumacher's new novel, The English Experience, coming soon.

Download or read book Algorithms Unlocked written by Thomas H. Cormen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has ever wondered how computers solve problems, an engagingly written guide for nonexperts to the basics of computer algorithms. Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds? How your credit card account number is protected when you make a purchase over the Internet? The answer is algorithms. And how do these mathematical formulations translate themselves into your GPS, your laptop, or your smart phone? This book offers an engagingly written guide to the basics of computer algorithms. In Algorithms Unlocked, Thomas Cormen—coauthor of the leading college textbook on the subject—provides a general explanation, with limited mathematics, of how algorithms enable computers to solve problems. Readers will learn what computer algorithms are, how to describe them, and how to evaluate them. They will discover simple ways to search for information in a computer; methods for rearranging information in a computer into a prescribed order (“sorting”); how to solve basic problems that can be modeled in a computer with a mathematical structure called a “graph” (useful for modeling road networks, dependencies among tasks, and financial relationships); how to solve problems that ask questions about strings of characters such as DNA structures; the basic principles behind cryptography; fundamentals of data compression; and even that there are some problems that no one has figured out how to solve on a computer in a reasonable amount of time.

Download or read book Writing Recommendation Letters written by Joe Schall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Suggestions to Medical Authors and A M A Style Book written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Instant Recommendation Letter Kit written by Shaun Fawcett and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 45 Medical School Recommendation Letters written by Nancy L. Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they prepare for medical school, few candidates take the time to acquire the caliber of recommendation letters they will need to distinguish themselves in a highly competitive applicant pool. This book, which was written by an Ivy League admissions expert, offers detailed advice to write (and get) persuasive letters that highlight the personal, academic and professional strengths the committee expects to see. It also includes 45 successful recommendation letters, including several that "explain" extenuating circumstances in a candidate's history (such as disappointing grades, a gap in employment, and low MCAT scores). At top medical schools, where the competition is fierce, the quality and depth of a candidate's reference letters can make the difference between acceptance and rejection. Whether you are an applicant who needs a persuasive letter of recommendation, or someone who has been asked to write one, this exceptional book is mandatory reading.

Download or read book 45 Law School Recommendation Letters That Made a Difference written by Nancy L. Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they prepare for law school, few candidates take the time to acquire the caliber of recommendation letters they will need to distinguish themselves in a highly competitive applicant pool. This book, which was written by an Ivy League admissions expert, offers detailed advice to write (and get) persuasive letters that highlight the personal, academic and professional strengths the committee expects to see. It also includes 45 successful recommendation letters, including several that "explain" extenuating circumstances in a candidate's history (such as disappointing grades, a gap in employment, and low LSAT scores). At top law schools, where the competition is fierce, the quality and depth of a candidate's reference letters can make the difference between acceptance and rejection. Whether you are an applicant who needs a persuasive letter of recommendation, or someone who has been asked to write one, this exceptional book is mandatory reading.

Download or read book Great on the Job written by Jodi Glickman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great on the Job offers a much-needed "people skills" primer and masterclass in all facets of workplace communication Do you know how to ask for help at work without sounding dumb? Do you know how to get valuable and useful feedback from your colleagues? Have you mastered your professional elevator pitch so that every time you meet someone, they remember and are impressed by you? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, you need Great on the Job. In 2008, Jodi Glickman launched Great on the Job, a communications consulting firm whose distinguished client list includes Harvard Business School, Wharton, The Stern School of Business, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup. Now, Glickman's three-step training program is available in book form for the first time. With case studies, micro strategies, and example language, readers will learn communication skills that can be practiced and implemented immediately. In today's economy, it's not typically the smartest, hardest working or most technically savvy who succeed. Instead, the ability to communicate well is often the most important precursor to success in the workplace. So whether you're a star performer or a struggling novice, Great on the Job will give you the building blocks you need for every conversation you'll have at work.

Download or read book How to Write Letters written by Mary Owens Crowther and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Work Your Career written by Loleen Berdahl and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Tracing Ochre reassesses popular beliefs about the Beothuk. Placing the group in global context, Fiona Polack and a diverse collection of contributors juxtapose the history of the Beothuk with the experiences of other Indigenous peoples outside of Canada, including those living in former British colonies as diverse as Tasmania, South Africa, and the islands of the Caribbean. Featuring contributions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers from a wide range of scholarly and community backgrounds, Tracing Ochre aims to definitively shift established perceptions of a people who were among the first to confront European colonialism in North America."--