讀者王先生問：留學推薦信重要嗎？應該怎麼寫？找什麼樣的人寫最好？信中應該包括什麼內容？有哪些技巧？
北京威久留學專家張巨集：推薦信可能是所有申請檔案中最為重要的一項。推薦信的篇幅一般英文成稿約為300 ~400字。推薦信最忌諱寫成類似中國老師給學生寫的評語，每個人都適用。面面俱到，詳略不當也是不可取的。此外評價亦忌太過誇張，好像申請人的現有水平已經不需要任何進修或對申請人的過度吹捧使推薦人本身的層次和水平大打折扣。 推薦信寫作應注意以下幾點：推薦人最好選擇自己的.授課或論文指導老師。當然如果能找到大學招生負責人都認可或熟知的推薦人更好，如國際知名學者教授等。如果申請人是普通學生而選擇職位很高的推薦人（如學校校長），應該解釋清楚推薦人是怎樣瞭解到申請人的。同時在第一段就應介紹清楚推薦人和申請人的關係。 推薦信的核心還是應該和申請人的學業成績和學術能力緊密相關，應注意與所申請專業的結合。如申請管理類課程，勿用大量篇幅描寫輔修計算機的成績，反之亦然。推薦信在提出申請人優點時，應避免泛泛而談，最好附以具體事例，當然有資料支援更有說服力。如：排名10/200 （200人中前10名），多少天完成實驗，成功率如何。另外推薦教師如為論文或畢業設計指導教師，可提及論文或畢設大致情況，來說明被推薦人的研究或實踐能力。 申請人其他方面的優點，如團隊精神，開朗性格、品質、對科學研究的執著等也可簡單提及作為補充內容，這些是要求一個研究者必備的素質。
出國留學推薦信範文(一)
Dear Sir or Madam,
At the request of University of Denver, my student in Zhengzhou 19th High School, I’m providing this reference, which I hope can be useful for you to review her application to your undergraduate program.
I have been the Chinese teacher and class director in Zhengzhou 19th High School for more than ten years. We are one of the most famous and high-quality high schools in the whole city, the faculties in our school are all renowned and highly-experienced. Though I’m relatively young in the school, I have lots of experience in Chinese teaching and student managing. I have been titled the outstanding young teacher and class-director by school and city.
Yadi Wang came to my class in September 2006, the semester she entered our school. I know she is talent in music. She used to performance flute in our school activities, such as in talent show. In 2007, she passed the high level test of FLUTE LEVEL 8. She loves music that is all her classmates and school teachers know.
YADI WANG had special leadership and friendship in my class. Once we were about to take part in our school’s drama festival. We were supposed to play a Chinese traditional drama –BAIMAONU. I analyzed some key plots and roles of this drama to my students, and then left all the other works to their own. YADI WANG was in charge of the directing and casting. It was not an easy job as it may sound. The enthusiasm made everybody ask for the leading roles, but no one was willing to take these minor ones. So YADI WANG decided to run an audition. Combined the performance in the audition and students’ actual characteristics, YADI WANG assigned everyone the most suitable role. And then, she divided the crew into several groups. Different groups rehearsed in different places at the same time. And the leading actors were the strings to connect these groups into a collectivity. Through this way, it saved lots of time, which was the scarcest thing to middle school students, to get everybody into his role. And before the final performance, she just needed to call all the actors together for a preview for once or twice. She has done even better than I had expected.
Another time was in a seminar, we ran a debate competition about teacher’s professional ethics. YADI WANG was the leading debater of the con side. During the debate, she showed her wide knowledge and eloquence. She used lots of proverbs, history figures and examples to support her stand, and
every word of her was incisive to get to the point, and also full of humors. Her performance won both her teammates and opponents’ admiration.
Her positivity and versatility also can be found in many other aspects. She is ours school’s famous piano player who is always invited to play in many occasions. She knows the traditional skill of calligraphy writing, which she has been practicing from very small. During weekends or vacations, the “Holiday Working Team” she leads can always be found doing many community services. Normally, in order to get more students to participate in class’s management, the student cadre will change every semester or two, by student vote. But Yadi Wang has won all the elections by now, so she continued to be the monitor from the beginning of our class to today, and very likely to the graduation. All her classmates have approbated her ability, characteristics and performance. She is already a model in the class.
In this reference, I didn’t mention much about Yadi Wang’s grade, which I believe you can easily find was so outstanding from her transcripts and her ranking (25th out of 1560 students), because I’d like to give you something that you cannot find from these documents but I think is equally important to contribute to her excellence. I do hope, according to my recommendation, you could give her a favorable review. Thank you! Please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely Yours
Molly Yu
Chinese teacher/ Class director of Zhengzhou 19th Middle School
出國留學推薦信範文(二)
Dear sir/madam:
It is my pleasure to write this recommendation letter for my intelligent student, Yadi Wang. She is not only diligent but also good moral in our school. I will be very glad if my recommendation can help your evaluation of her capability.
I am the principle of the Zhengzhou 19th High School, which is a key high school in Henan province .In recent years, the 100 percent graduates from our school have been eolled by university, and in addition, 80% graduates in our school have been recruited by national key university. I got to know her as a student of our school. She has been keeping a good balance between the arts and sciences, gaining high grades in each of them. Because of her diligent studying, she was titled several times “exemplary student” “excellent student cadres” “various abilities in a major”. More importantly, she owns the industriousness and inquisitiveness in learning, and an unusual ability of abstract and analytical thinking and in-depth exploration of knowledge. Due to her outstanding performance in studying, in every semester, her ranking grade never fell down below top 5 in her grade.
At the same time, in the social field, she manifests her powerful leader and organization capacity. Presently, these positions, she has been taking in charge of in our school, the monitor of her class, the director of the youth volunteer of environmental protection association. Moreover, she has various hobbies for example, playing the piano and Chinese calligraphy. As an editor in our school magazine, her peculiar points of view, fine style of writing, sense of humor often compose an excellent article. She has issued many excellent essays in school magazine. Her remarkable talent was appreciated by her teachers and schoolmates. Especially, in May, 2008, she won the title of Excellent Work in Zhengzhou 15th Guanghua Cup Calligraphy Competition. This contest adequately shows her talent in art. Otherwise, she took actively part in all kinds of the social activities in her vacation, such as offering care to the olds in old people’s home, and leading various kinds of community service as a youth volunteer for propagating the theory of environmental protection in the street and cleaning the mother river of this city and etc. All these activities constantly improve her social practice ability.
Finally, I honestly recommend her to you, with the hope that she can get the best chance to develop her enthusiasm as well as talents in your first-class university as to make her
internationalization intellectual. I will highly appreciate your favorable consideration of her application. Please feel free to contact me if there’s any further information you need.Sincerely yours,
(Principal) 校長
April 25, 2010
出國留學推薦信範文（三）
Dear Sir or Madam:
As the Physic teacher of Miss Han, I have known her for 4 years during which time I’ve shaped a overall image of her. Generally, she’s included in the category of top-notch students I’ve ever acquainted with. Thus, I’m happy to give an introduction outlining her junior high school life here, to enable you to assess her suitability for acceptance to your esteemed university.
開頭固定模式，介紹推薦人與被推薦人關係，簡要提到推薦人的職位（最重要的一個）。這一段力求簡練精幹。
I taught Miss XXX, where she left me with an impression of her intellect, industry and independent thinking. During the 2 years in my class, both her assignments, which are meticulously finished, along with test scores on Physics subject almost always come out excellent. On the whole, she performed fairly competitively in most subjects in junior high. 這一段是從第一個側面來描述被推薦人，本文是從學術角度評價被推薦人的。
With a different frame of reference, I’d like to focus the picture on her merits of art talents and perseverance. Her active participation and many awards in art contests guide me to speculate about longtime practice of playing piano and painting which has later been
confirmed by her. It seems that her serious attitude toward school courses has something to do with the art practice. Though suffering from a broken arm since an accident in a sports activity, she didn’t give up practicing piano and finally passed the certificate exam of that year. Having conversed with her parents about the story, I come to understand this connection.
與前段不同，該段描述了被推薦學生在藝術上的才能，但在下面一段我們更進一步敘述了被推薦學生應用其藝術才能為團隊做貢獻的例項。
Not only does she exhibit many talents but also employs them to aid the class in various activities. Assigned to take charge of activities related to arts, she fulfilled her duties pretty well in selecting songs for the chorus, teaching them word by word and finally
accompanying their vocals in the contests. Besides, another case would prove her an able student to balance and make schedules. Even with approaching final exams and heavy courses work, she still kept classroom bulletin board updated by tips about courses and instant news about campus. Probably she takes it as a manner in which her painting skills could be applied while class activities were assisted.
最後強調了被推薦人良好的平衡能力，即使學業緊張，但仍出色完成工作任務。
XXX has been a real asset to Beijing NO.XX middle school, both in academics and in extracurricular activities. I am quite sure that she will prove equally valuable to your university, and am convinced that she will prove an outstanding undergraduate student. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information regarding this remarkable student.
最後一段仍然是模式化的語言。