{"658894":{"#nid":"658894","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Burnett, Hoffman Co-author Op-Ed on Letters of Recommendation in Academia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/rebecca-burnett\u0022\u003ERebecca Burnett\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor Emerita in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/courtney-hoffman\u0022\u003ECourtney Hoffman\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWriting and Communication Program\u003C\/a\u003E and Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, co-authored an op-ed titled \u0026ldquo;Fixing the Broken Letter-of-Recommendation Process\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026rdquo; \u003C\/strong\u003Ein \u003Cem\u003EInside Higher Ed.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the article, Burnett, Hoffman, and their co-authors examine how letters of recommendation in academia have become \u0026ldquo;a common site for problems of increased inequity at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.\u0026rdquo; To combat this inequity, they propose a collaborative, five-step process for writing letters of recommendation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For us, collaboration occurs as a way for both writer and applicant to determine how and what to say about the applicant,\u0026rdquo; they write. \u0026ldquo;While the writer ultimately controls the final content of a letter, including the applicant in the process of composing the letter allows for the creation of a narrative about the applicant that fits with the overall construction of their professional identity through their materials.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/2022\/06\/14\/writers-and-students-should-collaborate-recommendation-letters-opinion\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/2022\/06\/14\/writers-and-students-should-collaborate-recommendation-letters-opinion\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The op-ed, \u201cFixing the Broken Letter-of-Recommendation Process\u201d was published by \u0022Inside Higher Ed.\u0022 "}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-06-14 20:54:23","changed_gmt":"2022-06-27 20:01:04","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658893":{"id":"658893","type":"image","title":"Rebecca Burnett (left) and Courtney Hoffman (right)","body":null,"created":"1655239776","gmt_created":"2022-06-14 20:49:36","changed":"1655239845","gmt_changed":"2022-06-14 20:50:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"249756","name":"Burnett, Hoffman Co-author Op-Ed on Letters of Recommendation in Academia.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Burnett%2C%20Hoffman%20Co-author%20Op-Ed%20on%20Letters%20of%20Recommendation%20in%20Academia_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Burnett%2C%20Hoffman%20Co-author%20Op-Ed%20on%20Letters%20of%20Recommendation%20in%20Academia_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":729887,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Burnett%2C%20Hoffman%20Co-author%20Op-Ed%20on%20Letters%20of%20Recommendation%20in%20Academia_0.png?itok=pN0fgqCB"}}},"media_ids":["658893"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"491031","name":"Writing and Communication Program"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassidy Chreene Whittle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ncwhittle9@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}