2、主動(dòng)給推薦人提供自己的詳細(xì)信息。爭(zhēng)取在推薦人著手寫(xiě)推薦信之前和推薦人詳談一次，哪怕只有10分鐘，主要談?wù)勛约旱膶W(xué)業(yè)成績(jī)和自己的目標(biāo)，申請(qǐng)專業(yè)和方向。同時(shí)最好提供一份自己的詳細(xì)簡(jiǎn)歷，當(dāng)然，如果你的自述信已經(jīng)成稿或有草稿的話，可以一并提供。這樣便既可以使推薦人在推薦你時(shí)有的放矢，針對(duì)你申請(qǐng)的課程推薦，又可以避免推薦信過(guò)于泛泛而無(wú)實(shí)例的弊端。

3、推薦表VS推薦信。很多學(xué)校都有固定格式的推薦表，雖然是為了方便推薦人，但實(shí)際上卻給中國(guó)的大部分推薦人帶來(lái)很多麻煩。如果你一下子申請(qǐng)20所學(xué)校，光填表也夠教授累的。對(duì)于一些特別聲明用推薦表的學(xué)校，你盡量用推薦表，另外附上推薦信即可。而對(duì)于大部分學(xué)校，你都可以把自己要填的一部分，即申請(qǐng)方向或／和放棄閱讀的權(quán)利聲明，簽上字即可。而只要推薦信中包含推薦表中的內(nèi)容，就可以直接附上簽過(guò)字的推薦信即可。

    由于種種原因，大部分的中國(guó)申請(qǐng)者都是自己以推薦人的口氣用英文把推薦信寫(xiě)好，然后再請(qǐng)推薦人簽字。在國(guó)外也會(huì)有這種情況，尤其是在推薦人很忙的時(shí)候。這種情況下，最好先用漢語(yǔ)打個(gè)草稿讓推薦人過(guò)目，如果推薦人同意再精雕細(xì)琢成英語(yǔ)推薦信。對(duì)于中國(guó)學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō)，自己寫(xiě)推薦信可能比自述信還難。一是要用三種不同的口吻推薦自己，可能很不自然，不知道怎么說(shuō)，有的可能還很不好意思；二是，寫(xiě)完自述信，很多人已經(jīng)江郎才盡了，實(shí)在寫(xiě)不成什么新意了。要解決這些難題，為自己寫(xiě)出出色的推薦信，你可以和同學(xué)合作，互相修改和潤(rùn)色，也可以找專門(mén)的咨詢機(jī)構(gòu)幫你潤(rùn)色。無(wú)論如何，一定要注意以下幾個(gè)原則：

 1、客觀評(píng)價(jià)自己的成就，避免贊美過(guò)度。推薦信應(yīng)該表明推薦人對(duì)于申請(qǐng)者的動(dòng)機(jī)有一定了解，并能解釋申請(qǐng)者進(jìn)一步深造的需要。很多推薦信把申請(qǐng)者吹成了一個(gè)甚至比教授還牛的專家，就失去了推薦信的意義，既然已經(jīng)是大師級(jí)人物了，還去留學(xué)深造干嘛；

2、插入具體實(shí)例，避免堆砌泛泛的贊美之詞。推薦信中對(duì)于申請(qǐng)者的重要素質(zhì)和能力要有實(shí)例的支持。作為你的教授，總是可以論述你在幫他做的項(xiàng)目中的責(zé)任和表現(xiàn)，而作為你的老板，怎么會(huì)不能說(shuō)出你的某一項(xiàng)具體成就呢？就像寫(xiě)自述信時(shí)一樣，拿出一張紙，一邊寫(xiě)出自己的品質(zhì)，優(yōu)點(diǎn)，在另一邊注明至少一個(gè)實(shí)例。切記：推薦不是吹捧，所以推薦信的“裝扮”要適度，不能太花哨，太渲染。要盡量用平實(shí)可信的語(yǔ)言，增加細(xì)節(jié)性的例證說(shuō)明。

3、轉(zhuǎn)換語(yǔ)言風(fēng)格和思維角度，增加推薦可信度。自己給自己寫(xiě)推薦信不僅僅是擺事實(shí)的問(wèn)題，還有一個(gè)口吻，行文問(wèn)題。首先是內(nèi)容上，除了補(bǔ)充自己自述中所沒(méi)有的方面外，對(duì)于一些重要的成就和優(yōu)點(diǎn)進(jìn)行論述時(shí)，要從推薦人的角度考慮，切勿簡(jiǎn)單重復(fù)自述信或簡(jiǎn)歷中的內(nèi)容；其次是語(yǔ)言風(fēng)格上，用詞上要注意變換，不要出現(xiàn)你自述信中常用的習(xí)語(yǔ)等，最后在推薦信用的紙張、信封、字體、字號(hào)、段落等方面盡量避免雷同。

4、絕對(duì)避免語(yǔ)法、拼寫(xiě)或明顯的用詞錯(cuò)誤。

下面是一篇較好的推薦信，請(qǐng)大家體會(huì)一下這些原則的運(yùn)用。

    In capacity as Professor of Mathematics at Fudan University?I＇m writing to recommend Mr. Wang?Gesintosyour PhD program in Computer Science. I have known Mr. Wang since his sophomore year of college?and have acted as his thesis advisor and mentor. In my experience?he is a gifted and diligent student?and an admirably hard worker.

    Wang is an impressive student because he has been forced to overcome the significant challenge of a serious illness during his freshman year. When I first met Wang in my Discrete Math class?he did not appear to be anything special to me. While his exam scores were good?they were not as high as I would now expect of him. What I didn＇t know then was that due to his illness?Wang was attempting to take all of the difficult early mathematics courses at one time?including Discrete Mathematics?Advanced Mathematics?Linear Algebra?and Possibilities. While most students found preparing for just one set of these exams difficult?Wang was overwhelmed by four of them. But in the end?he achieved an impressive score on the final exam?which made me conscious of his unusual determination he demonstrates when confronting difficult challenges.