Writing Recommendation Letters by Mohammed Albakry, Clint Bryan - 9780472039654

Writing Recommendation LettersThe Discourse of Evaluation in Academic Settings\nAuthor(s): Mohammed Albakry, Clint Bryan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472039654, 978-0472039654\nSynopsis\nEven though reading and writing recommendation letters is one of the essential service tasks of the professorial life of academics, there are few resources to train graduate students and junior academics on how to draft a successful recommendation letter for different academic purposes. Writing Recommendation Letters draws linguistic and rhetorical principles from close to a thousand real-world examples of academic letters of recommendation. As a result, the research that informs the pedagogy is extensive, current, and highly relevant to the discourse of evaluation in academic settings with findings that have implications for genre-based writing instruction, English for Academic Purposes (EAP), .