美国推荐信怎么写
篇一：美国推荐信
几乎所有的大学都会要求美国留学申请人提出推荐信(Recommendation Letter),评审委员借着推荐者的文字描述,可以了解申请人的背景状况。它可说明各种成绩单数字以外的其它意义,补充过于计量化、公式化审核的一种评估方式。
美国留学申请研究所一般要求三封推荐信推荐人的身份可以是曾经教你的教授,或是现(曾)职工作单位主管,自已视需要组合。例如,如果你毕业十年,你的推荐人可应有二封工作主管为宜,而毕业一两年顶多一封即足够。
推荐人的职务,并不一定愈高愈有利,相反地,认识你愈久而职称不高,内容又适当地表达你的个性(Personality),才是上乘的推荐。以下,我们将提供你推荐信需注意的要点,帮助你着手起稿推荐信：
(一)不要拖时间,尽快起草：推荐信需要时间写,何况又得配合老师的时间。所以尽快起草你的推荐信,以便使你的推荐者有充裕的时间,为你的推荐信效力。
(二)提供充份的信息给推荐者：如果你要推荐者能掌握你的优点,你得提供充份的信息。自然,要尽量具体避免空洞地陈述。同时,你也该提供你申请学校截止日期给推荐者参考,以免推荐者耽误了你的申请。
(三)各推荐信的打字书信字体,宜选不同的型式,以示不同的推荐者。属需要圈选的表格者,可以直接以手稿填入。
(四)在逻辑推理下,推荐者不可能知道或了解你的特质,请勿提及。譬如说,学生课外活动的表现就不适于平常教授正式科目的教授提及,除非教授也参与其中。又如其它课堂的表现,除非其它教授曾经提及过,否则不适合此科教授评论学生在其它科目的表现。再如,学生如何在图书馆查数据、写报告花费的时间,一般老师是不可能知之甚详,除非实在太特殊而略有耳闻,故也不适合在推荐信中提及。
(五)推荐信的内容尽量简短有力：不要虚无空洞的形容词,例如他任职于某公司时,勤劳、负责、认真、为人谦虚、诚恳等语句,不宜多引用,最好讲出具体事实,才不流于形式,尤其不要抄袭市面的书信范例,以免流于陈腔滥调,落入俗套。
(六)如果可能的话,推荐者最好与你修的科目或学校相关。譬如说：如果你将来计划主修英文,最好推荐人之一是英文老师。又如,如果你申请常春藤名校(IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL),推荐者若也是常春藤名校出身,则其推荐信将更有力。
(七)适当提及自己的“缺点”。一封推荐信如果阐述的完全是被推荐的同学的优点，不免让人觉得有粉饰之嫌，如果能恰当地加入一些“缺点”，不仅能令推荐信真实，还会通过“似贬实褒”，反而突出了被推荐人的特殊气质。例如计算机专业、数学专业乃至金融专业的同学，在推荐信中可以考虑加入这样的词句：“该生有时因为过分专注于研究工作而难以平衡生活各方面的关系，这不失为一种美中不足”。这句话似乎是在谈“缺点”，但很明显
这样的“缺点”其实正是很多专业最渴望的“缺点”——废寝忘食的工作态度，从而使得“缺点”也为申请提供了巨大帮助。
推荐信包含的主要题材
(一)与申请者的关系：表达清楚何种方式认识。譬如说是老师、指导教授,老板等。说明交往多久,如果是教授学生关系,对教授的科目做一个简短的说明,如果推荐信者是你的老板(主管),请详细说明你的工作职责。
(二)推荐者对申请人人格个性特征的印象：譬如学习精神、工作态度、与同事(同学)相处的情形、组织领导能力、学术专长、研究能力、有无工作经验与否,并加注评语。
(三)推荐者对你能否顺利完成学位的看法：譬如说,描述你对特别分配职务上的表现,以表现你的应变能力。又如,申请者是否有其它潜力未发挥？ 如果申请者的成绩未尽理想,评述你对申请者的看法。解释申请者虽然形式上的成绩未尽理想,却有极深厚的潜力尚未发挥。如果申请者转系,也可以强调申请者有强烈的学习动机,根据推荐者的观察,相信以申请者的表现,一定可以成功完成学业。
(四)推荐者对申请人人格个性特征的印象：譬如学习精神、工作态度、与同事(同学)相处的情形、组织领导能力、学术专长、研究能力、有无工作经验与否,并加注评语。
(五)重述推荐者对申请人的支持及能力的确认,以再次肯定对申请人的支持与推荐。
美国留学申请推荐信的`模式
推荐信的格式有些模式可循,以下将针对各段提供模式作参考：
(一)抬头可用的格式有：
Dear Sir/Madam;
To Whom It May Concern:
(二)第一段：引文句子可以引用如：
“It is a pleasure to recommend to you (name), a former student of mine at (name of university).”
“I an very happy to have this opportunity to recommend (name), who is presently applying for admission to your graduate (or undergraduate) program in (name of program).”
“I understand that (name) is applying for admissions to your graduate
(undergraduate) school, and has requested that I write this letter of recommendation for her/him.”
“In my capacity as professor at xxxx University, I have known xxx for three years, as both his/her advisor and professor.”
(三)第二段：这段可以提供最实质的内容。譬如,如果推荐者是教授, 解释学生在他门下所修的课程。
“(name) took two of my courses during the 1984-85 academic year, as follows; “xxxxx” and “xxxxx”.”
“(Name) was enrolled in three of classes from September 1984 to June 1986 “xxx” and “xxx”.”
接下来,教授写一些有关申请人在课堂上的表现,如完成的研究计划、实验室研究、研究报告、考试的成绩、课堂态度、讨论课的参与等,举出实例。
“In my class (es), (name) did excellent work. She always listened attentively, participated activitely in class, and handed in very good written assignment. “In particular, his/her research paper on (topic) was of exceptionally high quality, and showed that s/he fully understands and has a strong background in his/her field.”
如果推荐人是工作主管,首先一定要仔细陈述申请人的工作职责,并对申请者工作表现作一评估。如果可能的话尽量列举实例。
“When (name) held the position of (job title) in this company she was one s/he was one of my best employees. His/her job responsibilities included (describe them), and s/he carried out his/her duties with exceptional skill and professionalism.” “S/he not only did his/her own work, but also helped other employees, and made many valuable contributions to the efficient running to our firm.”
第二段最后一段：可以提及申请人在班上(或公司里)的比较表现(譬如排名)：
“I was rate (name)'s academic ability as in the top 10% of his/her class.” “Compared against other students that I have taught, I would say that (name) ranks in the upper 10%.
接下来,推荐者可对申请人能否成功完成学业提出看法。举例：
“Based on his/her previous performance, I am certain that (name) would be a very successful student at your university.”
“I believe that (name) possesses all the qualities necessary to make an excellent graduate student in his/her chosen field, and am sure that s/he will make a fine addition to your campus.”
(四)第三段：如果还有其它话想说,请另写一段.例如：英文能力、沟通技巧、领导才能、特殊学术或工作背景。譬如说,如果申请人欲申请的科系是企管系,推荐者可着力描写他们有关申请人商业的专门技术、领导才能,以及申请者所参加的商业活动,例如,有关商业方面的组织社团。又如,申请人申请护理研究所,推荐者可着力描写他们关怀的态度、处理实验室的技能,或是对病人的奉献。
(五)最后,以几句结尾作总结；
“Therefore, I am happy to highly and without reservation recommend (name) for admission to your graduate program. Your kind/serious consideration of his/her application would be most appreciated.”
“I am thus pleased to give my full support and recommendation to (name)'s application for admission to your school. If any further information is required, please feel free to contact me.”
签名：
Sincerely,
Sincerely yours,
Very truly yours,
With best regards,
下面结合上面的部分内容，给出一篇推荐信样例(被推荐的同学是数学系的)
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am writing this letter of recommendation for Mr.Caleb,my former student. I have known Mr. Caleb for more than 6 years since his freshman year at "University of Minnesota". At that time, he took the course-- "Mathematical Analysis," which I taught mainly for junior students majoring in Mathematics. To my surprise, I found he was among the few students in his class who could keep up with the pace of my lectures. Moreover, he often posed thought-provoking questions during the course. Thus it was natural that I liked discussing with this young man and became familiar
with him. The more I knew him, the more I found he was talented at mathematics. As you can see, he got excellent scores on the course. In fact, he ranked No. 1 on this 270 hours course in the talented student class which has 34 intelligent others. With his outstanding talent and solid mathematical background, he also did quite well in most other courses during his undergraduate study. By the way, you may wonder why his undergraduate scores look not so good compared to other Chinese applicants. It is easy to explain, because he belonged to the talented student class, which were required to endure harder test papers and stricter grading than most other college students did at least at "University of Minnesota".
He even served as Prof. Linda s Research Assistant for one year. No one could deny his commitment to his job. As a matter of fact, Prof. Linda s electronic lab happened to be neighboring my office and I could always see him working in the lab, either repairing the instruments or helping Prof. Linda collect lab reports. Maybe one more example will demonstrate his commitment more clearly. Once he suggested compiling a FORTRAN program to solve a complicated circuit problem in his class. In order to do that, he had to do a lot of computer work. However, because there were few computers available in our computer lab, he had to wake up at 5 a.m. in winter (please note: "Twin city" is a downtown near the north border of China, so it is pretty cold in winter and the heating system is not working very well.) to ensure the 1st position of the long waiting line for his classmates and himself! At last he and his classmates finished the program successfully with his great efforts.
As to his personality, I would like to say Mr. Caleb is a warm-hearted, honest and upright student. He was always ready to help others. During my lectures, many students got confused at some points and I could always see Mr. Caleb help them explain during breaks. In the meanwhile, I must admit that Mr. Caleb was a bit impatient sometimes.
Finally, I would like to conclude my recommendation as follows: frankly, Mr. Caleb is not a genius, but I promise his great intelligence, commitment to work and his kind nature will impress you deeply. Thus I recommend him without reservation for his admission and financial aid to your program. Please feel free to contact me if needed.
Sincerely Yours,
XXX
篇二：推荐信格式
标准的出国留学推荐信包括下面几个部分：信头，称呼，联系方式和日期，正文，落款和签名。下面天道小编带你看看美国留学推荐信的标准格式以及各个部分都需要放什么：
信头，就是说你要用带有自己学校标志的信纸来写，因为你的推荐人一般是自己学校的老师。我们的推荐信是自己打印的，你可以做好一个信头放上去，如果你所在的系里有自己的信头，就建议你使用自己系的标志信头，那样更好。有时候申请学校可能会要求，推荐信必须具有信头，并且信头不能是打印出来的，这时候你就得去学校的商店里买那种专用的带有信头的打印纸了。 在北大， 学校的博实商店就有卖这种纸的，分红色和蓝色两种颜色的信头。
推荐信的称呼可以用 Dear Sir/Madam，Dear Admission Officer，Dear Colleague(要求你的推荐人曾经在所申请学校工作过) ，或者 To whom it may concerns等等。
联系方式和日期写在推荐信最上方，信头之后，一般来说是写推荐人的联系方式而不是对方学校的联系方式。联系方式在前，日期在后;联系方式写在左边，日期写在右边。当然这里的联系方式也可以不写，如果你在落款中已经写明了的话。抬头和落款中只要有一处写到联系方式就行。写联系方式的时候，注意写上推荐人的职务、职称、电话以及 email。
正文也是按照标准的英文正式文体格式，每段顶格写，段落之间空一行。
结尾的落款，首先是顶格写一句敬称，Yours sincerely 或者 Sincerely yours即可。然后写上推荐人的联系方式。下面给出一个最简单的例子： ours Sincerely,
rofessor XXX
ice Dean, School of Physics
eking University
注意，中间空了几行就是为了留给教授签名用的。教授的签名是凭他自己的习惯，有时候姓在前，有时候名在前，所以你的 Professor XXX 中的名字一定要和签名一致。至于这个签名是英文还是中文，要看教授的习惯。一般要求用英文签名，如果教授习惯用中文，那可以用中文。
至于整篇推荐信的字体，要求统一，不要使用不同的字体。因为你有三封推荐信要写，所以你应该尽量使用不同的信纸，字体，字号，页边距等等，尽量使得三封推荐信的样式看起来各不相同。
要知道教授给你签推荐信是一个很繁琐的过程，一般来说一封推荐信需要 3 个签名：推荐信上一个，推荐表格上一个，信封上一个;然后还要在推荐表上签一个日期。你申请十几个学校的话，教授就要签 50 个左右的名字，是很累的。
如果你得到教授授权，可以自己代替教授签名，那你就模仿教授的笔迹签名好了，这样即使对方学校有疑问过来核实，由于教授给你授权了，学校也不会查出什么东西来。
有时候教授不愿意给你签很多的名字，而且你经常跑去找他签名也不好，毕竟不能总去麻烦教授。这个时候你还是自己模仿好了，随便拿几封推荐信让教授签了，后面的你全部自己代笔模仿。一般来说教授给你签推荐信的时候，是不会看你的推荐信是用在哪个学校的申请上的，所以即便是对方学校觉得你的签名不太对劲，来找教授核实，教授反正也不知道他的推荐信是用在哪些学校上面的，所以肯定回复说这是我写的。当然如果碰上上面说过的把推荐信连签名都复印再寄过来的情况就没办法了，你就直接去和教授解释一下吧。
至于出国留学推荐信的字数嘛，没有什么很严格的要求。只要你把话说清楚了，把被推荐人的特点叙述的清晰明了，就是一封好的推荐信。有人说推荐信一定要在一页以内，其实不必，一页半的样子都是可以的，只要你是真的有话要说。你能写得更短当然更好，写不短也没有关系。不过也要注意，推荐信总长度不要超过两页，否则真的没人愿意看。
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