聘请客座教授
【内容提示】
Jackson教授是美国人，现在你城东方大学教育系任教。他是国际上知名的心理学博士，专门从事青少年心理研究。你校准备用一个学期的时间给同学们讲讲心理学方面的常识，每周两学时。请你以教务长郭新宇的名义给Jackson写封聘请信，请他来给你们讲学。你们学校的名字叫红星中学。要点如下：
①聘期一学期，从1999年9月1日起至2000年1月31日止。
②月薪人民币2000元，5个月共计10,000元。
③免费提供两居室公寓一套，供其休息和办公用。
【作文示范】
Employing a Visiting Professor
Dean's Office
Red Star Middle School
This City, 030011
Professor Jackson
Education Department
East University
This City, 030000
Dear Prof. Jackson,
We are planning to give our students some elementary knowledge① of psychology. As you area world well-known scholar and doctor in the psychological studies of teenagers. We, on the recommendation of② Prof. Liu, head of your department, beg to take an opportunity to invite you to come to our school to give us some lectures. If you consider it convenient to do so, we shall appoint③ you as a visiting professor of psychology from September 1st, 1999 to January the 31st, 2000 for a period of one semester. We will pay you a monthly sum of ￥2,000 and ￥10,000 in all. We will also offer you, free of charge, a two-room furnished apartment④on our campus for your rest and work.
Hoping to get a favourable reply from you at your earliest convenience⑤.
Yours sincerely,
Guo Xinyu
Dean of Red Star Middle School
【词语解释】
①elementary[?eli'ment+ri] knowledge 基础知识
② on the recommendation[?rek+men'deiM+n] of 在……的推荐下
③appoint[+'p&int] v. 聘请
④furnished apartment['f+:nMt +'p%:tm+nt] 一套备有家具的公寓房
⑤ at your earliest convenience [k+n'vi:nj+ns] 尽早（回信）
【写法指要】
聘请信（letters of employment）主要用于聘请对方前来工作、讲学等。这种信需写明聘请的目的、给予对方的待遇以及聘请期限。有时可用一些表示崇敬的语句，如这封信中写的“As you are a world well-known scholar and doctor in….”即是。由于这种信多半是写给不认识的人的，所以要用较为正式的文体和格式来写，表示对对方的尊重。