Letters of Reference

Mr. Fraser Robinson

Letter of Reference for Ms. Janice Adams
December 19, 1999

Dear Sir or Madam:

My acquaintance with Janice Adams began in 1991 when she joined Abu Dhabi Women's college as an English Teacher. During the course of the past almost 9 years, I have observed Ms. Adams to be professional and proficient at her work here at the college. She is well liked by her colleagues and, as evidenced by public accolades that have been made over her work on the college newsletter, is well regarded by her supervisors and director.

I've had the opportunity to work closely with Ms. Adams on the college newsletter, the Corniche Chronicle (CC), since I joined its staff in 1995. Ms. Adams was serving, as she has done since the CC's inception, as faculty editor/advisor to a team of student reporters and editors. Ms. Adams brought energy and commitment to her extra-curricular work on the newsletter, which was at that time produced as a print publication. Her leadership of the students encouraged participation that would otherwise have been lacking and resulted in a newsletter which underwent continuous improvement and expansion, and is still doing so.

In 1996, Ms. Adams, along with one other faculty member and myself, began a project to develop the Corniche Chronicle as an online publication. The first web edition was posted in March 1997 and the online CC has been produced monthly since. After an intensive period of self-learning during which she put in many late evening and weekend hours learning HTML code, Ms. Adams took over most of the technical production by February 1998. In September of 1999, she completed redesign of the entire site. She has also single-handedly produced and maintained a parallel web site for English language learning, the Learning Activities Link, which is integrated with the Corniche Chronicle. While carrying on with the actual production of these web sites, she has continued in her role as managing editor, fulfilling all of its traditional responsibilities.

Ms. Adams' shows great professionalism as an editor. I believe she brings her experience as a teacher of English to bear while in that capacity. As editor of the Corniche Chronicle she demonstrates excellent organizational and interpersonal skills. She is able to motivate others, and she is diplomatic yet efficient at dealing with material she is given for publication. She is a meticulous proofreader and is always dedicated to quality in the final product of the newsletter.

All in all, I can say it has been a pleasure working with Ms. Adams, both as a teaching colleague and as a member of the faculty editorial staff of the college newsletter, the Corniche Chronicle. I can recommend her highly in both the fields of teaching, and of publishing and/or web design. She will be an asset to any organization she joins in future.

Sincerely,

Mr. Fraser Robinson
Instructor, Business Information Technology
Abu Dhabi Women's College
Higher Colleges of Technology

fraser.robinson@hct.ac.ae

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