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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ESL, Formal, General &amp; Business Letter Writing (English language)</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/FormalGeneralBusinessLetterWriting-EnglishLanguage/Forum5.htm</link><description>Formal Letter writing questions, how to write a cover letter, general, business, official, reference, character, leave, sponsorship, invitation, CV, writing to an English company, Learn how to start and end a letter in the English language.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3260.39585)</generator><item><title>Re: Need a PhD Cover Letter !</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NeedAPhdCoverLetter/hrjvg/post.htm#587322</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:10:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:587322</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NeedAPhdCoverLetter/hrjvg/post.htm#587322</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-587322.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>hello all&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am Rahman need a PhD. Cover Letter. i wuold like to write to Professor who is a VLSI reseacher. I would highly appreciate any help , i also mentioned my personal as well asÂ  academic information in this regard.Â &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Please help! I am not good at writting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Md. ** Rahman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lecturer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Department of Computer Science and Engineering&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;** Science and Technology University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interest :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VLSI Design, Programming, VLSI Design, Distributed system, Networking and Graphics.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Doing a research on Multiple-Valued logic minimization and realization of Multiple-Valued Flip-Flops, Multiple-Valued Full Adder, Multiple-Valued Subtractor, as well as Multiple-Valued ALU.Â &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;7 journal and conference Publications On VLSI fieldsÂ &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;strong&gt; Â  Â Academic records:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â 7th position in MS in computer science and engineering from ******** UniversityÂ &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â 14th position in MS in computer science and engineering from ******** University Â &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thesis Topic: &amp;quot;Minimization of Multivalued Logic&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PhD Cover Letter ! Need help to correct it</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqxmh/post.htm#416949</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:32:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:416949</guid><dc:creator>Kathrin</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqxmh/post.htm#416949</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-416949.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hi,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;if you want to make it right, so seek good samples in special books, Internet, whatever. But look for similar samples.&amp;nbsp; Sometimes the universities&amp;nbsp; have samples on the homepage, you know the Internet . Then keep to the samples and everything would be&amp;nbsp; fine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Best wishes,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kathrin &lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PhD Cover Letter ! Need help to correct it</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqxzh/post.htm#416830</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:30:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:416830</guid><dc:creator>Quan</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqxzh/post.htm#416830</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-416830.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>I am so grateful to you for your correction.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;it is actually very unprofessional. I will rewrite it now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks !&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PhD Cover Letter ! Need help to correct it</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqmbd/post.htm#416180</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:21:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:416180</guid><dc:creator>Kathrin</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqmbd/post.htm#416180</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-416180.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Hello all,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;First of all, i would like to thank everyone who have good posts on this forum. It helps me a lot when I learn English.&lt;br&gt;I am now writting a PhD. Cover Letter. I would highly appreciate any help to improve it.&lt;br&gt;Please help! I am not good at writting .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thank you in advance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Dear
Sir or Madam,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;On
recommendation of Prof. Dr. ***, University of ***, I am writing &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;to you in order &lt;/font&gt;to apply for &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;the PhDt&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;the PhD-program you are offering&lt;/font&gt;. &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Student position at ***.  I have enclosed a
completed resume for your review.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;My
name is Quan Nguyen, a fresh graduate from University of *** &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#000080"&gt;[Please don't introduce yourselve in a formal letter, it is very unprofessional. Besides, your resume is enclosed.] &lt;/font&gt;In March 2007, I &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;hold&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;got &lt;/font&gt;the Master degree in
Communication and Media Engineering. During my last academic year, I
had a chance to do &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;an&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;my &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;internship and master thesis in &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;the &lt;/font&gt;*** company. There I &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;gained profound&lt;/font&gt; &lt;strike&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;developed not only my&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/strike&gt;knowledge&lt;strike&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/strike&gt;in web
development &lt;strike&gt;but also real &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;as well as&lt;/font&gt; working experiences in an international
environment. My thesis is related to the issues in Business
Intelligent and Web 2.0. I obtained skills in J2EE programming and
advanced web technologies for Enterprise Applications including
Jboss, Portal/Portlet, Ajax, Web services,etc..&lt;strike&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt; It was a great
experience for me, which &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;has
focused my interests on the topic of Web&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000" face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;2.0 technologies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;After
my graduation, I worked as a PHP developer for ***, an IT and
business consulting company. I gained further experiences in web
programming, project management and team-working.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;As
well as my good understanding of academic principles, I am a very
motivated, hardworking and effective individual. Throughout my
career, I obtained a good communication and organizational skills. It
makes me confident that I will be suitable for your research team.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;For
my future career, I see this PhD program as the way to broaden my
knowledge&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;s&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt; in designing and implementing Enterprise Distributed
Applications, as well as how to &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;apply&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;strike&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;these applications&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;use them &lt;/font&gt;in business,
&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;which &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;in the case that &lt;/font&gt;SAP is now the best solution. &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;This  &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;Your &lt;/font&gt;program &lt;strike&gt;proposes&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;covers &lt;/font&gt;areas of
research that match my interests, such as Business Process Management
and Semantic Web Technologies.  &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I have no doubt in mind that I have
enough knowledges, skills and competence to pursue the PhD program in
your research center.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I
would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you to discuss how I
may be suitable for this position. &lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;I
am now on vacation in Vietnam, but can be reached at any time via
email or telephone at number +***&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;&lt;font color="#000080"&gt;[Your contact data should be in the resume and every person in the business wourld know how to reach an other person. If your contact data are not on the resume, you should put it there and don't write about it. Again, it looks very unprofessional, sorry, if I am too hard by trying to help]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Thank
you very much for &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;your time an&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt; &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;your &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;consideration. &lt;font color="#008000"&gt;My resume is enclosed. &lt;/font&gt;I look forward to hearing from
you.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Yours
faithfully,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Quan Nguyen&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhD Cover Letter ! Need help to correct it</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqkkb/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:41:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:415753</guid><dc:creator>Quan</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterCorrect/vqkkb/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-415753.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Hello all,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;First of all, i would like to thank everyone who have good posts on this forum. It helps me a lot when I learn English.&lt;br&gt;I am now writting a PhD. Cover Letter. I would highly appreciate any help to improve it.&lt;br&gt;Please help! I am not good at writting .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thank you in advance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Dear
Sir or Madam,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;On
recommendation of Prof. Dr. ***, University of ***, I am writing to apply for the PhD. Student position at ***.  I have enclosed a
completed resume for your review.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;My
name is Quan Nguyen, a fresh graduate from University of *** In March 2007, I hold the Master degree in
Communication and Media Engineering. During my last academic year, I
had a chance to do my internship and master thesis in *** company. There I developed not only my knowledges in web
development but also real working experiences in an international
environment. My thesis is related to the issues in Business
Intelligent and Web 2.0. I obtained skills in J2EE programming and
advanced web technologies for Enterprise Applications including
Jboss, Portal/Portlet, Ajax, Web services,etc.. It was a great
experience for me, which &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;has
focused my interests on the topic of Web&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;2.0 technologies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;After
my graduation, I worked as a PHP developer for ***, an IT and
business consulting company. I gained further experiences in web
programming, project management and team-working.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;As
well as my good understanding of academic principles, I am a very
motivated, hardworking and effective individual. Throughout my
career, I obtained a good communication and organizational skills. It
makes me confident that I will be suitable for your research team.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;For
my future career, I see this PhD program as the way to broaden my
knowledges in designing and implementing Enterprise Distributed
Applications, as well as how to apply these applications in business,
which SAP is now the best solution. This  program proposes areas of
research that match my interests, such as Business Process Management
and Semantic Web Technologies.  I have no doubt in mind that I have
enough knowledges, skills and competence to pursue the PhD program in
your research center.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;I
would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you to discuss how I
may be suitable for this position. &lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;I
am now on vacation in Vietnam, but can be reached at any time via
email or telephone at number +***&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Thank
you very much for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from
you.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Yours
faithfully,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman, serif"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3"&gt;Quan Nguyen&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>