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Okay, that was badly phrased. And I apologize if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find previous threads.
Would you avoid getting letters of recommendations from professors who speak with very heavy accents in class? That leads me to possibly think that they have flaky grammar also, especially when it comes to using "the" and "a," ambiguous stuff like that, but something that is noticeable to readers, ie. med school admissions... or maybe that isn't true? But I don't really know how they write, as I haven't seen anything but 1-2 sentence long problem set questions. In this particular instance, it is a physical chemistry professor, so all I've seen in lectures are equations, not sentences... so I really don't know how he writes.
Also, would you necessarily avoid professors who usually have poor grammar (usually science professors) who sometimes confuses "then" and "than" on problem set questions--if they know you well and you're 99% sure they'll write nice things about you?
Would you avoid getting letters of recommendations from professors who speak with very heavy accents in class? That leads me to possibly think that they have flaky grammar also, especially when it comes to using "the" and "a," ambiguous stuff like that, but something that is noticeable to readers, ie. med school admissions... or maybe that isn't true? But I don't really know how they write, as I haven't seen anything but 1-2 sentence long problem set questions. In this particular instance, it is a physical chemistry professor, so all I've seen in lectures are equations, not sentences... so I really don't know how he writes.
Also, would you necessarily avoid professors who usually have poor grammar (usually science professors) who sometimes confuses "then" and "than" on problem set questions--if they know you well and you're 99% sure they'll write nice things about you?