You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
You are looking for a part-time job.
Write a letter to an employment agency. In your letter
introduce yourself
explain what sort of job you would like
and say what experience and skills you have
Write at least 150 words.
You do NOT need to write any addresses.
Begin your letter as follows:
Dear ................. ,
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a German national from Heidelberg and at present I am studying for a Master’s degree in Commercial Law here, at the University of Bielefeld, where I have been for the last two months.
I am looking for a part-time job and I wonder if you can help me. Probably, I would like an office job, perhaps working as a secretary, office administrator or typist. I can only work during the afternoons and at weekends as my university studies occupy most of the day. I would be ready to start immediately.
I am a competent typist and I am computer-literate. In addition, I speak Polish and German fluently and I have been learning English for the past three years. While I studied for my degree, I worked as a part-time office manager for an import-export firm in Heidelberg. In recent years, I have also had temporary summer jobs as a hotel receptionist in Mannheim, Germany.
I am looking forward to hearing from you,
Yours faithfully,
Heinrich Bukowski
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 10
No. of Words: 171 200
No. of Characters: 772 1000
No. of Different Words: 102 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.616 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.515 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.982 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 58 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 41 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 29 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 18 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 14.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.467 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.423 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.728 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.157 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4