【格式】

　　salutation

　　如果你的推荐信是要给某一个人的，你应该加上称呼，例如dear dr. smith, dear mr.

　　jones，等等。如果你的推荐信非常general，你在称呼的地方写to whom it may concern 或者不写称呼也可以。

　　paragraph 1

　　推荐信的第一段应该说明你和被推荐人的关系，包括你是怎么认识他/她的，还有你写这封推荐信的资格。

　　paragraph 2

　　英文推荐信标准格式：推荐信的第二段应该包括被推荐人的个人信息，说明他/她的资格、能力，还有你为什么要为他/她写推荐信。如果必要的话，可以分几段来描述细节。

　　paragraph 3

　　如果是推荐被推荐人应聘某个职位，推荐信应该描述这个人的能力能适合他/她所要求的职位。可以参考招聘广告上对职位的要求和被推荐人的简历一起来写。

　　summary

　　主要内容叙述清楚后，还应该加一个简短的总结。总结部分应该再简述一下你为什么要推荐这个人。可以写上i highly recommend the

　　person，i recommendthe person without reservation 或者其他类似的话。

　　conclusion

　　英文推荐信的结尾部分应该写上你愿意提供更多的详细信息，要注明你的电话号码，联系方式和email address。

　　最后，还要写上下面这一段：

　　sincerely,

　　writers name

　　title

　　(tel number ，mailing address)

　　【范文】

　　Dear Colleagues：

　　As a teacher in Department of Biology, Nankai University, a leading university in China, I am very pleased to take this opportunity to recommend one of my favorite students to your PhD program.

　　In September, 2004, Miss Zhang was my students in General Biology, the first professional course they take in the field. She likes it very much. I teach her in an open and interactive manner, she is active and passionate about answering class questions. Miss Zhang is bright, energetic and enthusiastic girl who loves speaking out her own ideas. She never escapes from those points of which she is skeptical. Apart from that, she often puts forward her ideas upon questions and exchanges all of her innovate ideas with me after class.

　　Upon ending of General Biology course, I asked my students to write an essay upon their understanding of biology. I discovered Miss Zhang’s essay was so impressive and persuasive; her careful essay comes from dozens of references to Biology literatures. In essay Miss Zhang stretched out her creative thinking upon status quo of biological research and branches in the field of biology. All of this speaks to her creative and logical and scientific thinking capability. I am gladly to say that Miss Zhang has a clear understanding about General Biology, that comprehension has been reflected fully in her essay. Therefore Miss Zhang got a full point for her essay in her class, and other students took it as model essay for granted.

　　I believe Miss Zhang’s industriousness, passion and dedication will make her an ideal candidate you are seeking for your program, so I highly recommend her without any hesitation to you. And I will greatly appreciate it if you could accept her into your program.

　　Sincerely yours,

　　Prof. xxx