As a professor of the Finance School of Renmin University, I am writing...

[Glorning]

A recommendation letter by my professor

He wrote it in Chinese and I need to translate it.
This is the first draft. There must be quite a few flaws, grammatically or emotionally or logically or some sort...I mean sometimes there exists distinctions between western and eastern culture, so what I believe is logic and reasonable may be thought not that convincing.
Would anyone, especially those who is living or has lived in western countries, help me perfect my recommendation, many thanks!!!
Glorning

As a professor of the Finance School of Renmin University, I am writing to recommend C G for admission to your master program.
I got to know C G in 2007. He was the president of roller-skating society in my university and was responsible for training some children the basic skills of roller-skating; fortuitously my daughter was one of his trainees. Sometimes I watch them playing and feel his vigor. Later I heard that he was studying in my school. Once he invited my daughter and me to a game which he organized for roller-skaters. Although there are some minor defects during the whole process, it was a well-organized party. After all it is not easy to hold such a great party that over 180 athletes from 38 universities participated. The game lasted for two days, so he had to arrange accommodation for nearly 200 people, I guess it must be a tough mission.
I ever taught him taxation course. His full attendance record was striking among 32 students in the whole class. In addition, his paper impressed me a lot for his divergent thinking and the ability to analyze issues from various angles. He managed to judge whether the overall level of taxation in China is too high using data of money market and capital market. From my perspective, these statistics were not easy to obtain and gather, and more important, few students thought of these factors, not to mention searching data.
In the debate on this topic, he proposed that the government should maintain the present tax level with abundant evidence. To everyone’s surprise, when his opponents, for a short time, have nothing to say, he tried to refute what he had just said and supported that the government should reduce level of taxation and triggered the class’s laughter. To sum up, he has a creative nature.
He participated in the essay contest of RUC and asked me to direct. He told me that he is not meant to take the palm, but to practice academic writing ability as well as to acquire more life experiences, boring figures on the statistic yearbook cannot be substituted by first-hand information and personal experience of the attitude towards investment of the public in this rapidly developing economy. He spent holiday designing questionnaire and accomplish the report. My comment was: it made full use of statistics and carried out analysis that is logical and effective. Also the conclusion and proposals were reasonable. However, only if the sample size increases from 200 to 2000, could the report be convincing.
According to my experience in University of Georgia as a visiting scholar, I believe C G was suitable for the study in US and qualified for this project, for he not only has great interest and enthusiasm in this field, but owns basic skills needed by economic policy research. Thus, I recommend C G without reservation.

[TheGabriel]

I am a Professor at the Finance School at Renmin University, and I recommend C G for admission to your masters program.

I got to know C G in 2007. He was the president of the University's roller-skating society, and was responsible for teaching children how to roller-skate. My daughter was one of his students. Occasionally I watched them learning and practicing, and C G's passion and dedication to the children was obvious. Later on, I heard that he was studying in my school.

Once, he invited my daughter and me to an event that he had organized for the roller-skaters and their parents. It is not easy to organize an event in which over 180 athletes, from 38 different universities, participate. And, although there were many challenges to organizing the event, C G did it very well. For example, since the event lasted for two days, C G had to arrange accommodation for all these people.

C G took my taxation course. He had perfect attendance, which was striking among the 32 students in the class. In addition, his paper impressed me for its breadth of thought, and its analysis of issues from a wide variety of angles. He managed to judge whether the overall level of taxation in China was too high, using data from money and capital markets. These statistics were not easy to obtain and gather, and even more importantly, few of my other students even thought of these factors, never mind searched for the real-world data.

During the debate of this topic, C G proposed - with abundant evidence - that the government should maintain the present levels of taxation. Then to everyone’s surprise, when his opponents could find nothing to say to refute him, he tried to refute himself; he argued convincingly that the government in fact should reduce the levels of taxation (thus triggering the class’s laughter). He is a very creative and adaptive young man.

C G participated in the essay contest of RUC and asked me to mentor him. He told me that he was not meant to "take the palm," but to develop his writing skills, and to acquire more life experiences. He also said that when deciding how to make public investments in our rapidly developing economy, figures and statistics could not be a substitute for, but only compliment first-hand, personal experience. He then spent his holiday designing, distributing, collecting and analyzing a questionnaire to complete his report. My judgment is that C G's report made full use of the statistics, and its analysis was logical and effective, and his conclusion and proposals were reasonable. My only critique was that the sample size of 200 should have been closer to 2000 to support his conclusions better.

According to my previous experience at the University of Georgia as a visiting scholar, I believe C G is eminently suitable for study in the US, and very qualified for your program in particular. He not only has great interest and enthusiasm in his field, but displays all the skills needed for excellent economic policy research. Therefore, I recommend C G without reservation.

-TheGabriel

[Glorning]

Hi,TheGabriel!
Thank you very much! I also learn a lot about writing from your revisal, thank you!