关于留学申请中推荐信的道德与规则
留学申请中，推荐信的道德与规则
No applications can be successful without great letters of recommendation. They are the professional testimonials for (and sometimes, against!) your academic profiles. Great letters of recommendation make your application shine and help smoothen away the imperfections in your record; bad ones will kill your application.没有好推荐信的申请资料是难以获得认可的。推荐信以一个专业人士的角度来对你的学业进行资历证明。高质量的推荐信可以为你的申请资料加分;但是坏的推荐信很有可能会毁了你的申请。
Sometimes, a professor or lab instructor that you ask for the letter will be too busy and ask you to write the letter yourself, then he/she will sign it. DO NOT AGREE! It would be an example of a bad letter. The letter must be written by the recommender alone, and it is often unethical for anyone but the recommender and the review committee to read the letter. There is no exception to this rule. It is simply wrong to do otherwise.有些时候，你委托帮你写推荐信的教授有可能会因为太忙而让你自己写好后交给他签字。千万不要这么做!这么做只会适得其反。推荐信必须要由推荐者本人独立完成，并且让除了推荐者和招生部以外的的人士阅读它也是一种不道德的行为。
When deadlines are pressing, it may seem reasonable to accept the situation and write the letter yourself, just to make sure that it’s done. Another reason may be that the recommender has great credibility, is a well-known expert in the field, that one may assume that his/her signature alone carries sufficient weight and the letter needs only to be in form. It may also be very difficult to look for a recommender who know you well enough, and most institutions require 3 letters of recommendation. There’s also a flattering notion that the recommender trusts you enough to write the letter yourself and sign it for you. However, none of these reasons can excuse you from violating the rules that the letters must be written by someone other than you.当申请日期就要截止时，你可能会开始觉得为自己写推荐信是合理的。另一个原因可能是因为推荐者本身在领域内很有权威，因此申请者觉得只要有推荐者的签名就足够应付了。确实，能够找到一个真正了解你的'推荐者很难，何况一般申请入学都需要三封推荐信。还有一种观点认为正是因为推荐者足够信任你，才会让你自己写完后由他来签字。但是，所有的这些理由都不能成为违反规定的借口。推荐信必须要由你以外的人来完成。
The review committee will know. They are expert at reading letters and can pick up hidden cues that show that the letter was not honestly written by the person who signed it. Sometimes, the review committee may even call the recommender to speak more about the applicant, imagine the reviewer asking the recommender about something in the letter that he/she didn’t not write! Worse yet, you are not there when they read it to defend yourself. Not only will your character will be deemed untrustworthy, your application will be immediately disqualified!招生部门是可以鉴别出推荐信造假的。他们都是一些具备从推荐信中寻找到造假的蛛丝马迹的专业人士。招生部的人偶尔会给推荐者打电话来检测推荐信的可信度。一旦被发现造假，你的申请就会被自动作废。
So what can you do when you ask for a letter and are told you to write it? If this situation arises, politely explain to the potential recommender that you don’t feel comfortable going against the rule that the letters must be confidential. If he/she cannot be convinced to actually write it, politely thank him/her and decline the offer, then seek for another recommender.所以当推荐者要求你自己写推荐信时，你该怎么做呢?如果你真的碰到这样的问题，请礼貌地告诉你的推荐者你不愿意违反规定。如果他被说服了，那么请真诚的感谢他。如果他拒绝亲自动笔，那么请另找下家。
Remember, a letter from a lesser-known recommender who puts honest thoughts into writing will speak volumes compared to a letter that the signing author, however famous, did not write.记住，一封由一个真正懂你，不太牛的教授认真写出来的推荐信永远会比一封由你自己写的并加上了一个大牛教授的推荐信含金量更高。
Your essays and CV show how you assess your own credentials. Letters of recommendations show how others assess you, leave them in their hands.你的申请文书和个人简历展示了你对自己的评价。那么就让推荐信来展示他人对你的评价吧。
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