# Internship employer tells my kid to "draft something" re reference letter. So ...what to do next?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 29, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internship-employer-tells-my-kid-to-draft-something-re-reference-letter-so-what-to-do-next/718826 "2015-04-29T17:07:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internship-employer-tells-my-kid-to-draft-something-re-reference-letter-so-what-to-do-next/718826/21 "2015-04-30T00:00:47Z")

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She is being asked to write it. It’s really common- I think I wrote all of my grad school letters.

A good best practice when asking for a letter of recommendation is to include a short summary of your work and accomplishments. People simply don’t have time to write these things from scratch.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internship-employer-tells-my-kid-to-draft-something-re-reference-letter-so-what-to-do-next/718826/22 "2015-04-30T12:56:56Z")

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Thanks to everyone for input! Very helpful.

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