The applicant school may require that the recommendation letter must be written on letterhead, and the letterhead cannot be printed. At this time, you have to go to the school store to buy special printing paper with letterhead. In Peking University, this kind of paper is sold in the school's Bo Shi store.
Red and blue letterheads.
A letter of recommendation can be called Dear Mr./Ms., Dear Admissions Officer, Dear Colleague (requiring your reference to have worked in the school you applied for), or the person it may involve, etc.
The contact information and date are written at the top of the recommendation letter, behind the letterhead. Generally speaking, the contact information of the referee is written, not the contact information of the other school. Contact information comes first and date comes later; Write the contact information on the left and the date on the right. Of course, if you have written your contact information in your signature, you don't have to write it here. As long as there is a place for the header and signature, you can write the contact information. When writing contact information, you should pay attention to the position, professional title, telephone number and email address of the referee.
The text also conforms to the standard English formal stylistic format, with each paragraph written in capital letters and a blank line between paragraphs.
At the end of the signature, first write a respectful name in the top box, yours sincerely or sincerely. Then write down the contact information of the referee. The following is the simplest example:
We sincerely,
Professor XXX
Dean of ice, school of physics
Eking university
Note that a few lines are left in the middle for the professor to sign. The professor's signature is based on his own habits, sometimes the surname comes first, and sometimes the name comes last, so the name in your professor XXX must be consistent with the signature. Whether this signature is in English or Chinese depends on the professor's habits. Signature in English is generally required. If the professor is used to using Chinese, he can use Chinese.
As for the font of the whole recommendation letter, it is required to be unified and different fonts cannot be used. Because you have three letters of recommendation to write, you should try to use different stationery, fonts, font sizes, margins and so on. And try to make the styles of the three letters of recommendation look different.
You know, it is a tedious process for a professor to sign a letter of recommendation for you. Generally speaking, a recommendation letter needs three signatures: one on the recommendation letter, one on the recommendation form and one on the envelope; Then sign the date on the recommendation letter. If you apply to more than a dozen schools, the professor has to sign about 50 names, which is very tiring.
If you are authorized by the professor, you can sign for the professor yourself, and then you can imitate the professor's handwriting to sign, so that even if the other school has problems, the school will not find anything because the professor authorizes you.
Sometimes the professor doesn't want to sign many names for you, and it's not good for you to go to him often to sign them. After all, you can't always bother the professor. You'd better imitate it yourself at this time. Just take a few letters of recommendation and ask the professor to sign them. You can imitate the rest yourself. Generally speaking, when a professor signs a recommendation letter for you, he won't look at which school your recommendation letter is applied for, so even if the other school thinks your signature is not quite right, you should come to the professor for verification. The professor doesn't know which school his recommendation letter is from anyway, so he will definitely reply that I wrote it. Of course, if you can't copy the recommendation letter to me as mentioned above, just explain it directly to the professor.
The above is the writing format of the recommendation letter for studying abroad that foreign students should know, and I hope it will be helpful for students preparing to study abroad to write the recommendation letter.