Letter of Advice - IELTS Writing Task - I, General Test
A 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 problem, explain what happened to you in the past, suggest possible solutions to the problem. Write at least 150 words.
Dear R,
I fully appreciate the challenges of working in a corporate world. Unfortunately, hard work and discipline do not always help to get a promotion. Instead, one should be really smart in building and expanding internal and external networks.
Few years ago, I had the same issue with self-promotion and visibility. In other words, irrespective of the hard labour and efforts to meet work deadline, my contributions remained unnoticed. On the contrary, colleagues and employees who were more vocal, visible and well-connected scored excellent performance ratings and received the laurels. Clearly, I had to change my behaviour and working style in order to promote my contributions in the firm. I had a few coaching sessions with senior leadership team member who shared some tips to succeed in workplace. A couple of months later, my natural modesty were replaced by assertive and confident behaviour.
So, let me give you some advice.
First of all, you should not shy away from sending an email to your supervisor and leadership team stating your achievements in a particular task or project. Secondly, it is likely that people notice you easily when you start writing articles in internal and external journals. Finally, I would suggest you not to miss any opportunity to make presentations at town-hall and meetings.
I hope you will find these suggestions helpful and wish all the very best in your life.
Regards,
A
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, really, second, secondly, so, well, first of all, in other words, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.48453608247 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 4.92783505155 81% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 5.05154639175 297% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.03092783505 132% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 32.9175257732 70% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 26.3917525773 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.85567010309 78% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1218.0 937.175257732 130% => OK
No of words: 233.0 206.0 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22746781116 4.54256449028 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90696013833 3.78020617076 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04495473554 2.54303337028 120% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 127.690721649 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.678111587983 0.622605031667 109% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 290.88556701 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.41237113402 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.13402061856 109% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.360824742268 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 0.824742268041 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.83505154639 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 1.44329896907 139% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6804123711 110% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 16.3608247423 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.3646297393 44.8134815571 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.0 76.5299724578 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6428571429 16.8248392259 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57142857143 4.34317383033 174% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.29896907216 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 2.54639175258 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 7.41237113402 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.49484536082 134% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.94845360825 76% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180457243077 0.216113520407 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0486522477952 0.0766984524023 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0537997130275 0.0603063233224 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0967021166773 0.12726935374 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0731559675853 0.0580467560999 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 8.37731958763 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 70.7449484536 78% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 7.45979381443 127% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 8.71597938144 146% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 7.59969072165 123% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 41.2886597938 177% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 8.62886597938 81% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 8.54432989691 98% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 8.15463917526 123% => 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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