Letter to Manager Requesting Internal Department Transfer

You started in your present job two years ago. You now feel it is important for your career development to move to a different department in the same company.

Write a letter to your manager. In your letter:

• say what you have learned in your present job

• suggest how the company would benefit from moving you to a different department

• explain why you do not wish to leave the company

Dear ……………………,

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Letter points: Letter to Manager Requesting Internal Department Transfer

WhyThis is aSemi-formal letter — it asks you to cover every bullet point in a polite, semi-formal tone.

SoWe group the points under each bullet point of the task.

Say what you have learned in your present job

10 points

Suggest how the company would benefit from moving you to a different department

6 points

Explain why you do not wish to leave the company

10 points

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Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The letter makes the transfer request clear and explains the writer's loyalty through the scholarship and internship history. It describes workplace experience, but leaves the learning implicit and does not clearly explain how the company would benefit from the move. Frequent grammatical and word-choice errors also make parts of the message effortful to follow.

TA

Task Achievement

The transfer request and reasons for staying are clear, and workplace experience is described, but what the writer has learned remains implicit and the company's benefit from the move is not clearly explained.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are arranged in a broadly logical order with paragraphing that follows the bullets, though some sentences are confusing and cohesion relies on basic linkers like so and however used inaccurately.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The writer shows adequate vocabulary range for the workplace topic, but errors such as 'look up on my job stats', 'overcome with various challenges', and misspellings like 'chnage', 'goot' and 'orgization' reduce precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Sentence structures are attempted with some complexity, but frequent errors in verb forms, articles and agreement, such as 'to requesting' and 'my application get accepted', reduce accuracy and sometimes clarity.

5.5

What to work on next

Revise the letter to correct recurring grammar and spelling errors, especially verb forms and word choice, so the request reads smoothly and professionally.

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