{"id":127,"date":"2008-05-12T03:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T03:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/12\/on_the_nature_of_covering_letters\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T03:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T03:58:56","slug":"on_the_nature_of_covering_letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/12\/on_the_nature_of_covering_letters\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Nature of Covering Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie has been discussing how to write <a href=\"http:\/\/minorrevisions.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/to-whom-it-may-concern.html\">covering letters<\/a> .  I was always fascinated by how my previous boss managed to make our work sound of fundamental importance to . . . well, just about everyone, really.<\/p>\n<p>\nA well-written covering letter at least shows respect for the Editor who is handling your opus, and might actually be useful in persuading them to send the manuscript out to review instead of laughing hollowly and consigning it to the &#8216;ach, I can&#8217;t be arsed&#8217; pile.  But \u2014 just like <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/rpg\/2008\/03\/12\/on-the-care-and-training-of-students-especially-the-training\">writing<\/a> papers and giving <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/labrats\/2007\/06\/everybodys_talkin_1.html\">seminars<\/a> \u2014  cover-letter writing is one of those things that we are, as far as I can tell, supposed to acquire by osmosis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut I wondered if you have hints or advice you&#8217;d like to share. If so, you should leave a comment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSo.  Please.  <a href=\"http:\/\/minorrevisions.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/to-whom-it-may-concern.html\">Leave a comment<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie has been discussing how to write covering letters . I was always fascinated by how my previous boss managed to make our work sound of fundamental importance to . . . well, just about everyone, really. A well-written covering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/12\/on_the_nature_of_covering_letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}