One of your friends wants to apply for a job involving working with foreign teenagers.
Write a letter of recommendation for him/her.
You should write at least 150 words.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have learned from your newspaper advertisement that your center is organizing an international summer camp for overseas teenagers, and you are looking for a bilingual assistant tutor to work with the children. I am writing to you to recommend one of my best friends, Helen Wang, for this post.
Helen used to be my classmate at Beijing Normal University, where she was already a very active organizer and participant in extracurricular activities. With her outstanding leadership skills and cheerful personality, she was elected chairperson of the Student Union several ti...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 10
No. of Words: 197 200
No. of Characters: 970 1000
No. of Different Words: 133 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.746 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.924 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.866 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 68 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 55 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 39 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.239 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.077 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.748 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.265 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4