Person A is up for tenure as an Associate Professor.
Person B is a colleague of mine who's been asked to write a peer
letter of recommendation for person A.
Person B considers Person A a pretty good friend as well as a
respected colleague. Person B's letter _could_ include some
reminiscence about the intellectual pleasures of having kicked around
ideas with Person A, ideas that turned out to be academically
productive. Would this be considered too informal or personal for a
tenure letter? If not, would it be considered too anecdotal to
constitute the _focus_ of the letter?
In other words, what ingredients should go into this kind of letter,
and in what proportions? What should be the overall tone?
--David Epstein
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