General Writing Sample Task 1 #82 – Request for Information
You work for a company. You have seen some information online about a training course that would be useful for your work.
Write a letter to your manager. In your letter
- give details of the course
- say how the course would be useful
- explain how the company could help you do this course.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
Model answer 1
Dear Tom,
I have recently become aware of a course called Social Media Marketing Essentials and I am writing to ask for your support in taking this course. It is a five-day intensive program being offered by the Business Leadership Association and it starts on Monday 15 February. I believe the course would be of great benefit to our company as we have been recently considering how to build up our social media presence and attract more customers online. After reading reviews by former participants, I think this Social Media course will help me professionally in my capacity as Communications Manager and make a real difference to our company.
For these reasons, I am requesting paid leave from 15-20 February to attend the course. It would be helpful if other team members did not take leave at this time; so far nobody else has applied. I believe this will not be a particularly busy time at work, but I am prepared to spend some time working on those evenings if needed.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best wishes
Mark
(183 words)
Model Answer 2
Dear Alexandra,
I have heard about the next Siggraph International Congress 2021. It will be 15 until 25 of November in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the biggest convention event that meets all the best Graphic Computation, Art, Digital Design and Emerging Technologies, such as VR/AR. Every year they have a great exhibition with all the latest launches, involving virtual experiences, immersive environments, augmented reality devices, as well as some costumes concepts related to the Hollywood films.
I believe It will be a relevant opportunity to our Company to send a group made by designers, engineers, and film-makers. Once we have all these subjects met in one place together, It will be useful to do an update in some tech trends and to do network. For knowledge sharing, they also offer some hands-on workshops.
For this opportunity, It is important to consider the schedule about the projects in the week event, since it will take ten following days. Having it mind, I suggest to choose some people that won’t impact on our delivery for this time. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards
Alice Santos
Model Answer 3
Dear Sir / Madam,
I am writing to you to request about the Course I have seen on the Internet. The Training Course is more on Programming that tackled about PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), It would be immensely helpful for improving my skills related on Programming. Allow me to elaborate on exactly why I like this course.
Firstly, this course will benefit me to learn more deeply about Programming that’s related to my work. Core details of this course emphasizing on how to utilize PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), Similarity, main part of this subject is about fundamental of Hypertext Preprocessor with CSS and HTML which are highly essential. Php is a widely used open-source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can embedded into HTML. Adapting new technology like Laravel is portion of the course, Laravel is the most excellent framework in the market today. In addition, the amount of this course is quite cheaper than the previous one I requested to you.
Secondly, it is valuable course. We could improve the system of the department by applying the new knowledge earned on that training. Furthermore, adding innovative approach on the technologies we have in the company will support us to sustain the demand of our valued customer.
Lastly, it would be beneficial also not only on my part as well as in the company. Our system will be more efficient, systematized, and organized. Authorization of my request from our company is necessary it would be very helpful if you assist my request.
Your act of generosity has made such an impression.
Kind regards,
Kevin
