When your students are about to start their college, higher education applications, jobs, internships, or programs, they are likely to ask you for a letter of recommendation. When a student requests a letter of recommendation from you, first of all, you should be proud that they trust you.

A letter of recommendation is a reference document that highlights a student's skills, achievements, and qualifications. For this reason, you should use a formal and realistic tone of voice when writing a letter of recommendation.

In this article, we will explain how you can write a letter of recommendation for a student and provide you with inspiring templates.

TL;DR - Summarized by TextCortex

  • If you are an educator at an educational institution, you may need to write letters of recommendation for different applications of your students.
  • When you write a letter of recommendation for a student, you increase the likelihood that his or her application will be accepted.
  • Using TextCortex, you can generate letter of recommendation templates suitable for various scenarios.
  • TextCortex also has features that allow you to rewrite your existing texts, fix grammar & spelling, or generate follow-up sentences.

How to Write a Letter of Recommendation for a Student

If you want to write a letter of recommendation for your student, you must first consider your student's skills, strengths & weaknesses, achievements, projects, and social skills. Thus, you can write your letter of recommendation with reliable information and increase the likelihood of your student's application being accepted.

What to Write in a Letter of Recommendation for a Student

When it comes to writing a letter of recommendation for a student, you need to follow a format that will guide your writing process. A letter of recommendation format includes:

• Greeting

• Introduction

• Overview

• Personal Story

• Closing Statement

• Signature

How to Request a Letter of Recommendation?

If you are a student and need a letter of recommendation that you can use as a reference for your application, you can ask your teachers, professors, mentors, or coaches to write one. When requesting a letter of recommendation, you can write an email in a polite and formal tone or ask in person.

Letter of Recommendation for Students Examples

We have explained the format you should follow when writing a letter of recommendation for a student. Next, we will share templates that you can use for different scenarios.

Letter of Recommendation Template for Student

This template is a generic example that you can adapt to any case. You can use this template in different scenarios by changing certain sentences.

Letter of Recommendation Example for Student

Letter of Recommendation Template for Internship

One of the most challenging processes for a student is the internship period, where he or she leaves education and steps into professional life. Firstly, your students should complete an internship in a company or business where they can gain useful experience. Since such companies receive dozens of applications, if you want your student to stand out from the crowd, you need to write a letter of recommendation.

Letter of Recommendation Template for Internship

Letter of Recommendation Template for College

If you want to write a letter of recommendation for your students' college admissions, you can take inspiration from the template below.

Letter of Recommendation Template for College

Letter of Recommendation Template for Graduate School

To support your student's application to graduate schools, you can write a letter of recommendation by following the template below.

Letter of Recommendation Template for Graduate School

Character / Personal Recommendation Letter Template

If you want to write a personal recommendation letter to support any application of a student, you can use the following template.

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Using TextCortex to Write a Letter of Recommendation

TextCortex is an AI assistant designed to assist you with a variety of writing tasks, including letters of recommendation. TextCortex is available as a web application and browser extension. Its browser extension is integrated with 4000+ websites and apps, so it can continue to support you anywhere and anytime.

TextCortex Writing Features

TextCortex comes with 100+ AI templates to help you complete your various writing tasks. In addition to these templates, you can use the “TextCortex Toolbar” to rewrite your existing texts, generate follow-up sentences for your paragraphs/sentences, or change the tone of voice of your text. Some of the most popular TextCortex templates include:

  • Paraphrase your text in 25+ different languages.
  • Change your text's tone of voice.
  • Rewrite your text with simple, creative, fluency options.
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  • Summarize your text in 25+ different languages.
  • Utilize 100+ templates for pre-made content forms.
  • Translate your PDFs, DOCXs PPTXs, text, etc. in seconds.
  • Fix the spelling and grammar of your text in 25+ languages.
  • Read your text aloud with text to speech feature.
  • Communicate with AI using prompts.
  • Write emails from bullet points.
  • Create essays and blog posts in 25+ language.
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ZenoChat 

TextCortex offers ZenoChat, a conversational AI that can generate templates or completed text for a variety of your writing tasks, including letters of recommendation. You can generate text, have a human-like conversation experience, or rewrite your existing texts by entering various prompts into ZenoChat.

ZenoChat comes with 12 unique personas designed for different tasks. If these personas are not enough for you, you can build your own AI persona using our Individual Personas feature. No coding skills are required.

Another impressive feature of ZenoChat is its Knowledge Base. Using this feature, you can upload or connect the data that ZenoChat will use to generate output. Additionally, thanks to this feature, you can summarize hundreds of pages of PDF documents with a single click.

Custom Templates

If you do not want to rewrite the same prompts repeatedly, you can try our Custom Templates feature. Custom Templates enable you to save your favourite prompts as templates.

This way, you do not have to type the same prompts repeatedly when you need them!