Writing Good Recommendation Letters for Your Students

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Channel: The University of Chicago · 2014 · Education

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This workshop, led by Catherine Brekus, Professor in Religions in America and the History of Christianity, and Jeffrey Stackert, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, will help graduate students learn how to write good letters of recommendation for their undergraduates.  Among other topics, we will discuss what information should be included in a recommendation letter and how to avoid implicit gender and/or racial bias.

Recorded in Swift Hall on December 5, 2013.

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