Letter of Recommendation Generator
A letter of recommendation is written by someone who supervised or taught the candidate, and it works through specificity: the relationship, its length, and one or two concrete examples of the person's work. A letter full of adjectives and no incidents reads as a favour; a letter with one memorable example reads as evidence.
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Common questions
Who should write a letter of recommendation?
Someone who supervised your work directly and can give specific examples. A junior lecturer who taught you closely writes a far stronger letter than a department head who barely knows you.
How long should it be?
One page, three to four paragraphs. Longer letters dilute the specific evidence that makes them persuasive.
Can the candidate draft it themselves?
It happens, and some recommenders ask for a draft. The recommender must review, edit and sign it in their own voice — the letter has to be genuinely theirs.
