You are applying for a job and need a letter of reference.
Write a letter to a former teacher. In your letter:
Give details of the job
Explain why it is important to you
Suggest what information your teacher could put in the reference.
Dear sir,
my name is Bamidele Ala, your former student in the department of electrical and electronics engineering in the University of Portarcourt.
I am currently interested in applying for a senior manager role advertised by The shell Petroleum Nigeria and would request your kind assistance to forward a letter of recommendation to the company in support of my application, as one of my referees from the academia.
The job description includes managing a team of about 8 personnel directly. The team I would be heading is expected to be responsible for the real-time monitoring and reporting on the communication links of the company around the world. As you may be aware, the head office of shell in London and the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian affiliate is in Portharcourt. The corporate headquarters maintains communication with about 8 locations, 3 offshore rigs and 5 operational office spread across the nation's geo-political zones.
having worked in the middle management cadre of local companies for about 2 decades, I am convinced that this job, if employed by shell will give a boost to my career. The financial gains will also make it possible for me to cater fairly adequately for my ageing parents an those that have over the years made meaningful contributions to my life. I consider the opportunity a lifeline.
I would greatly appreciate if your letter could state explicitly for how long you have known me, my academic capabilities and my leadership abilities as well as the quality of being able to work with a multiracial team to deliver successfully on set goals.
Thanking you in anticipation of your kind gesture.
Yours sincerely,
Bamidele
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 398, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[2]
Message: You should probably use 'maintain'.
Suggestion: maintain
...ortharcourt. The corporate headquarters maintains communication with about 8 locations, 3...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 486, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...3 offshore rigs and 5 operational office spread across the nations geo-political ...
^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Having
...oss the nations geo-political zones. having worked in the middle management cadre o...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 272, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...fairly adequately for my ageing parents an those that have over the years made mea...
^^
Line 7, column 272, Rule ID: AN_THEN[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'and those'?
Suggestion: and those
...fairly adequately for my ageing parents an those that have over the years made meaningfu...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 7.48453608247 94% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 4.92783505155 142% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 5.05154639175 119% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.03092783505 66% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 32.9175257732 85% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 26.3917525773 155% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 3.85567010309 233% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1422.0 937.175257732 152% => OK
No of words: 275.0 206.0 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17090909091 4.54256449028 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 3.78020617076 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20306464819 2.54303337028 126% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 127.690721649 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607272727273 0.622605031667 98% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 290.88556701 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.41237113402 120% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.13402061856 88% => OK
Article: 5.0 0.824742268041 606% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 1.83505154639 163% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 1.44329896907 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6804123711 95% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 16.3608247423 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.7105232668 44.8134815571 169% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.5 76.5299724578 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9166666667 16.8248392259 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 4.34317383033 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.29896907216 140% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 2.54639175258 196% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 7.41237113402 121% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.49484536082 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.176147446068 0.216113520407 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0640936455857 0.0766984524023 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470748702094 0.0603063233224 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0939649946253 0.12726935374 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372075857708 0.0580467560999 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 8.37731958763 172% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 70.7449484536 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 3.82989690722 292% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 7.45979381443 176% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 8.71597938144 149% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.55 7.59969072165 126% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 41.2886597938 203% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 8.62886597938 185% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 8.54432989691 126% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 8.15463917526 135% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.