Letter of Advice - IELTS Writing Task - I, General TestA friend has written to you asking for advice about a problem at work. You have had a similar problem in the past. Write a reply to your friend. In your letter: tell your friend you understand the pro

Dear Emily,

I am really delighted to have received your letter. Glad to hear you have finally found a well-paid job without having graduated from the uni. In your letter you mentioned some issues that bother you much and I am going to give you some advice on how to address the problem.

Luckily, I remember myself being in your shoes on my first days at work when I was thrown in at the deep end. Then I had to meet a foreign delegation. The thing is I could hardly remember any international business etiquette rules and put my foot in it over and over! So the confusion you wrote me about is quite familiar to me.

Actually, when I saw our Japanese colleagues for the first time I gave them my hand to shake, whereas, as I had been taught earlier, a bow should have been given instead. My next faux pas was putting their business cards in my pocket without reading them carefully, which made them annoyed. Fortunately, my manager was tolerant enough and supportive and she did not tell me off later but tried to reduce the growing tension between me and our guests.

Since your predicaments are similar to those I had at the beginning of my career, I suggest keeping calm and staying focused. Were I you, I would revise all the notes taken in my lectures to refresh my memory. Besides, there is plenty of information on the Internet that could be used to improve your communication skills.

Well, I hope my suggestions help you. If you need any more advice, feel free to text or call me.

Best wishes,

Nataliia

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, but, finally, first, if, really, so, then, well, whereas, as to

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 7.48453608247 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 4.92783505155 101% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 5.05154639175 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.03092783505 165% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 32.9175257732 164% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 26.3917525773 133% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.85567010309 78% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1265.0 937.175257732 135% => OK
No of words: 278.0 206.0 135% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55035971223 4.54256449028 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 3.78020617076 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49517157037 2.54303337028 98% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 127.690721649 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.658273381295 0.622605031667 106% => OK
syllable_count: 394.2 290.88556701 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.41237113402 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.13402061856 77% => OK
Article: 2.0 0.824742268041 243% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 1.83505154639 218% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 1.44329896907 139% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6804123711 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 16.3608247423 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6659047557 44.8134815571 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.3333333333 76.5299724578 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5333333333 16.8248392259 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46666666667 4.34317383033 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.29896907216 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 2.54639175258 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 7.41237113402 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.49484536082 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.94845360825 51% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24213145452 0.216113520407 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0777252001422 0.0766984524023 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072846441331 0.0603063233224 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137099946324 0.12726935374 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0952844485419 0.0580467560999 164% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 8.37731958763 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 70.7449484536 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 7.45979381443 106% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.11 8.71597938144 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 7.59969072165 101% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 41.2886597938 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 8.62886597938 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 8.54432989691 108% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 8.15463917526 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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