@marvin100, you’ve made it crystal clear what you think of an instructor who solicits a draft recommendation letter from a student. (Lazy and shady–yup we got it.) And you’ve suggested that any student acquiescing to that kind of request becomes an accessory to unethical behavior.
So how to you advise OP’s daughter, or any other student in that position, to proceed? Should she refuse the request for a draft, thereby likely sacrificing the recommendation altogether or, at best, having it written by a disgruntled instructor (as if anyone would take that risk)? What if, as in the case of my D, the instructor is the most appropriate one to provide a grad school recommendation, and foregoing it would seriously impact her chances at admission? Or should the student mount an even higher horse and report the instructor’s behavior to the department as a violation of some theoretical ethical standard?
OP came here looking for help:
An exhaustive discussion of whether the professor in question should have requested the draft in the first place is of no value to the OP. It’s actually a shame to see someone come to CC for help and have to watch as a thread devolves into a useless debate the way this one has. Maybe some CC’ers out there–perhaps some of those posters who write recommendation letters regularly–can offer OP some solid ideas?