推荐信写作详细指导(2)

文章作者 100test 发表时间 2007:12:13 16:59:23
来源 100Test.Com百考试题网

1、客观评价自己的成就，避免赞美过度。推荐信应该表明推荐人对于申请者的动机有一定了解，并能解释申请者进一步深造的需要。很多推荐信把申请者吹成了一个甚至比教授还牛的专家，就失去了推荐信的意义，既然已经是大师级人物了，还去留学深造干嘛；

　　2、插入具体实例，避免堆砌泛泛的赞美之词。推荐信中对于申请者的重要素质和能力要有实例的支持。作为你的教授，总是可以论述你在帮他做的项目中的责任和表现，而作为你的老板，怎么会不能说出你的某一项具体成就呢？就像写自述信时一样，拿出一张纸，一边写出自己的品质，优点，在另一边注明至少一个实例。切记：推荐不是吹捧，所以推荐信的“装扮”要适度，不能太花哨，太渲染。要尽量用平实可信的语言，增加细节性的例证说明。

　　3、转换语言风格和思维角度，增加推荐可信度。自己给自己写推荐信不仅仅是摆事实的问题，还有一个口吻，行文问题。首先是内容上，除了补充自己自述中所没有的方面外，对于一些重要的成就和优点进行论述时，要从推荐人的角度考虑，切勿简单重复自述信或简历中的内容；其次是语言风格上，用词上要注意变换，不要出现你自述信中常用的习语等，最后在推荐信用的纸张、信封、字体、字号、段落等方面尽量避免雷同。

　　4、绝对避免语法、拼写或明显的用词错误。

　　下面是一篇较好的推荐信，请大家体会一下这些原则的运用。

　　In capacity as Professor of Mathematics at Fudan UniversityI＇m writing to recommend Mr. WangGesintosyour PhD program in Computer Science. I have known Mr. Wang since his sophomore year of collegeand have acted as his thesis advisor and mentor. In my experiencehe is a gifted and diligent studentand an admirably hard worker.

　　Wang is an impressive student because he has been forced to overcome the significant challenge of a serious illness during his freshman year. When I first met Wang in my Discrete Math classhe did not appear to be anything special to me. While his exam scores were goodthey were not as high as I would now expect of him. What I didn＇t know then was that due to his illnessWang was attempting to take all of the difficult early mathematics courses at one timeincluding Discrete MathematicsAdvanced MathematicsLinear Algebraand Possibilities. While most students found preparing for just one set of these exams difficultWang was overwhelmed by four of them. But in the endhe achieved an impressive score on the final examwhich made me conscious of his unusual determination he demonstrates when confronting difficult challenges.

　　Mr. Wang and I have often talked about a variety of mathematics and computer science concepts and problems. During these discussionsI always found him to be delightfully intelligent.

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