Letter of Advice - IELTS Writing Task - I, General TestA friend has written to you asking for advice about a problem at work. You have had a similar problem in the past. Write a reply to your friend. In your letter: tell your friend you understand the pro

Dear Emily,

I'm really delighted to have received your letter. Glad to hear you have finally found a well-paid job without having graduated from the uni. In your letter you mentioned some issues that bother you much and I'm going to give you some advice on how to address the problem.

Luckily, I remember myself being in your shoes on my first days at work when I was thrown in at the deep end. Then I had to meet a foreign delegation and entertain them on the first day of their visit. The thing is I could hardly remember any international business etiquette rules and put my foot in it over and over! So the confusion you wrote me about is quite familiar to me.

Actually, when I saw our Japanese colleagues for the first time I gave them my hand to shake although I had been taught in my International Business Etiquette classes that a bow should have been given instead. My next faux pas was putting their business cards in my pocket without reading them carefully, which made them annoyed. Fortunately, my manager was tolerant enough and supportive and she didn't tell me off later but tried to settle the growing tension between me and our guests.

Since your predicaments are similar to those I had at the beginning of my career, I'd suggest keeping calm and staying focused. Were I you, I'd revise all the notes taken in my lectures to refresh my memory. Besides, there is plenty of information in the Internet that could be used to improve your communication skills.

I hope my suggestions help you. If you need any more advice, don't hesitate to text or call me.

Best wishes,

Nataliia

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, but, finally, first, if, really, so, then, well, as to

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 7.48453608247 120% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 4.92783505155 81% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 5.05154639175 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.03092783505 165% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 32.9175257732 164% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 26.3917525773 136% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.85567010309 52% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1279.0 937.175257732 136% => OK
No of words: 273.0 206.0 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68498168498 4.54256449028 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 3.78020617076 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52967467902 2.54303337028 99% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 127.690721649 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.641025641026 0.622605031667 103% => OK
syllable_count: 393.3 290.88556701 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.41237113402 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.13402061856 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 0.824742268041 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.83505154639 163% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 1.44329896907 139% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6804123711 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 16.3608247423 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8091066184 44.8134815571 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.2666666667 76.5299724578 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2 16.8248392259 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86666666667 4.34317383033 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.29896907216 116% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 2.54639175258 236% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 7.41237113402 148% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.49484536082 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.94845360825 25% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238036434231 0.216113520407 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0827642195374 0.0766984524023 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0748325272744 0.0603063233224 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14238701507 0.12726935374 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.096246597571 0.0580467560999 166% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 8.37731958763 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 70.7449484536 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 7.45979381443 106% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 8.71597938144 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 7.59969072165 105% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 41.2886597938 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 8.62886597938 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 8.54432989691 108% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 8.15463917526 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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