Rec letter recs?

[drwex]

One of my minions has asked for a recommendation letter for their grad school application. I'm looking for guidelines and advice on how to write a good letter - what should go in, what length am I aiming for, etc.

If you've written these things, do you have examples you can share? If you've asked for them, were there things that you thought were good/bad in the letters you got?

Comments

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

It's been such a long time since I had to do this that I'll just point you at this instead. (Yes, of course you could have found that on your own. I wanted to be helpful, realized that my knowledge wasn't exactly current, and am leaving you a placebo to assuage my desire to be helpful. ;-D)