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DeVry – Professional Writing – Letters of Recommendation

Letters of Recommendation
 
Any of you who have been asked to produce a letter of recommendation might find yourselves wondering how to describe your subject’s less-than-sterling qualities.
Here are some phrases you might find useful.
 
It was given to me by Julian Craft, my instructor for ENGL 225 (Professional Writing) course at DeVry.
 
For an employee who is so [...]

I should have done it earlier…

I should have done it earlier, I suppose, but I did not.  Oh, well.  But the soil was fetilized and the seeds were planted.  It took less than a year and here I am in a new role.  It is a totally new experience for me, and, little did I suspect,   it became my [...]

Incident Report. Part 2

That is what I wrote about writing a report.  I doubt if anyone else dared to write to a teacher like that.  But knowing Julian Craft and knowing me it comes as no surprise.
After we watched the tape, Julian Craft told us to write an incident report. At that moment, we had to write [...]

Incident Report

Memo
To: Julian Craft
From:
CC:
Date: August 14, 2000
Re: Incident Report
Julian Craft showed us videotape that was to imitate an incident. It appeared that his intention was to give us an exercise in writing incident reports.

The incident occurred at 11:05 AM on Friday, August 11, 2000. Julian Craft was conducting a class in Professional Writing (ENGL [...]