{"id":17487,"date":"2015-09-14T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:10","slug":"writing-effective-reference-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2015\/writing-effective-reference-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Effective Reference Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Writing Effective Reference Letters\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Requests for reference letters are just around the corner as students begin to apply for scholarships, graduate programs, internships, and a myriad other professional and volunteer positions. How do you decide which requests to take on and which ones to turn down? How do you write an effective reference letter? How do you let a student know you are unable to write a reference letter for them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Sept. 25, bring your lunch to this second session in the Welcome to My Classroom series and hear from Kim Hellemans, one of our Provost\u2019s Teaching Fellows, as she shares her strategies for managing multiple requests for reference letters and the elements of an effective reference letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session runs from 12-1:30 p.m. in room 422 Dunton Tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Space is limited, so <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/cu_event\/welcome-to-my-classroom-writing-effective-reference-letters\/\">register today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requests for reference letters are just around the corner as students begin to apply for scholarships, graduate programs, internships, and a myriad other professional and volunteer positions. How do you decide which requests to take on and which ones to turn down? How do you write an effective reference letter? How do you let a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40522,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions\/40522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}