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。
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