留学生如何写好推荐信?

马振华

  写推荐信的十大技巧

  1.看一遍申请人的个人材料或申请书,这样你的推荐信才能和申请相吻合,而不会在内容上有所冲突或重复。

  2.让申请人给你提供更多的材料,如简历等。

  3.描述你把该申请人和其他申请人对比的先决条件。

  我已从教20年,过去五年来,我指导过大约450名学生的独立研究项目。

  五年来,我每年夏天带10名实习生,同时还以大银行集团(Big Bank Corp.)培训老师的身份带200多名大学生。

  4.探讨你对申请人的了解程度。

  我认识Doe先生是因为我每周的两次课他都上,而事实上只要求上一次。

  史密斯小姐在大六会计事务所(Big Six Accounting Firm)升职前两年一直直接向我报告。

  5.选你所观察到的申请人的一、两个优点。

  珍妮有绝佳的写作和与人交往技巧。

  Doe先生的特点是坚韧不拔、有分析头脑、善于与人沟通。

  6.在描述这些优点的时候,举具体事例来支持你的观点,事例要尽量具体、详细。

  他是我所教过的学生中唯一一名把听我所有的'课当成一种不懈而最终成功掌握金融理论的努力的学生。班上只有10%的学生得了A,他是其中之一。

  珍妮有这样好的写作技巧,我毫不犹豫就让她写了一份报告,这份报告是我们政治行动委员会(PAC)一项重要政策声明的基础。有了珍妮这20多页关于中东政治的分析,国会议员XXX用这份声明去游说,以图吸纳更多的资金。

  7.力求把这名学生的能力量化,或把他和其他申请人相对比。

  他是班上10%的好学生之一。

  在我所知的她的同龄人中,她的分析能力是最好的。

  8.避免一般化和陈词滥调。

  9.有一些很温和的批评。

  就我所知,他唯一的缺点是他与世无争的性格,这种性格使得他有时隐匿了年轻人的活力和广博的兴趣。

  偶尔地,她的坚韧和坚持会变成固执,但通常她都性格很好,头脑也很冷静。

  10.谈谈申请人在他/她所选领域里的前景

  我竭力向贵商业学校推荐Doe先生,这名成熟的学生会成为一名优秀的商人。

  史密斯小姐有优异的领导、写作等才能,她会成为一名出色的战略咨询人员,会成为她所服务的商业机构的骄傲。

  留学推荐信范文

  Dear sir/madam:

  It is my pleasure to write this recommendation letter for myintelligent student, XX XX. He/she is not only diligent but also good moral inour school. I will be very glad if my recommendation can help your eva luationof his/her capability.

  I am the principle of the XXXX High School, which is a keyhigh school in XXXX province .In recent years, the 100 percent graduates fromour school have been enrolled by university, and in addition, 80% graduates inour school have been recruited by national key university. I got to knowhim/her as a student of our school. He/she has been keeping a good balancebetween the arts and sciences, gaining high grades in each of them. Because ofhis/her diligent studying, he/she was titled several times“exemplary student”“excellent student cadres” “various abilities in a major”. More importantly,he/she owns the industriousness and inquisitiveness in learning, and an unusualability of abstract and analytical thinking and in-depth exploration of knowledge.Due to his/her outstanding performance in studying, in every semester, his/her ranking grade never fell down below top 5 in his/her grade.

  At the same time, in the social field, he/she manifests his/herpowerful leader and organization capacity. Presently, these positions, he/shehas been taking in charge of in our school, the monitor of his/her class, thedirector of the youth volunteer of environmental protection association.Moreover, he/she has various hobbies for example, playing the piano and Chinesecalligraphy. As an editor in our school magazine, his/her peculiar points ofview, fine style of writing, sense of humor often compose an excellent article.He/She has issued many excellent essays in school magazine. His/Her remarkabletalent was appreciated by her teachers and schoolmates. Especially, in May,2008, he/she won the title of Excellent Work in XXXX Competition. This contestadequately shows his/her talent in art. Otherwise, he/she took actively part inall kinds of the social activities in his/her vacation, such as offering careto the olds in old people’s home, and leading various kinds of communityservice as a youth volunteer for propagating the theory of environmentalprotection in the street and cleaning the mother river of this city and etc.All these activities constantly improve his/her social practice ability.

  Finally, I honestly recommend him/her to you, with the hopethat he/she can get the best chance to develop his/her enthusiasm as well astalents in your first-class university as to make his/her internationalizationintellectual. I will highly appreciate your favorable consideration of his/herapplication. Please feel free to contact me if there’s any further informationyou need.

  Sincerely yours,

  (Principal) 校长

  Date:

  XXXX High School