Re: Models of recommendation letters

["MULLIN ANNE" <MULLANNE@AD.isu.edu>]

I rather expected  Dr. Glover's  law firm would be after me  (when 
they're not working overtime on Car Talk litigation) -- but I'll 
simply say in defense of  copying his model letter of reference that 
"it was on the Net."  Which gets back to the really important issue 
Nell has raised.  The problem of undocumented sources is going to get 
hugely more difficult because of the downloading syndrome -- I just 
encountered a similar argument ("I didn't think I NEEDED to use 
quotation marks or citations if I was just using their ideas") when I 
pointed out that, in fact, the writer had copied word for word from 
her sources.