Letter to Boss Requesting Reduced Hours for Study

You would like to reduce your working hours in order to study part time.

Write a letter to your boss. In your letter

• explain why you want to reduce your working hours

• say which hours you would like to work

• describe how your part-time studies would benefit your employer

Dear ...,

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Letter points: Letter to Boss Requesting Reduced Hours for Study

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.

Explain why you want to reduce your working hours

1 point

Say which hours you would like to work

5 points

Describe how your part-time studies would benefit your employer

8 points

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Answer · 221 words · 5 paragraphs · 18 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The letter addresses all three bullet points with a clear purpose and relevant detail about the course and its workplace benefit. However, the proposed arrival and departure times do not establish a reduction in hours. Frequent grammatical errors and awkward phrasing also slow the reader, although the general request remains understandable.

TA

Task Achievement

The purpose is clear and all three bullet points are addressed, including the accounting course and its workplace benefit. However, the requested schedule does not clearly reduce hours: the stated 10 am–5 pm shift is seven rather than eight hours, while arriving an hour earlier and leaving at 4:30 pm would make it longer.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are organised into logical paragraphs with some linking devices, but connectors such as 'however' and 'therefore' are sometimes used inaccurately and progression is occasionally mechanical.

6.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the task, including 'accounting department' and 'professional competencies', but combinations such as 'up-skill my professional competencies' and 'abilities required in my essential work' are awkward and imprecise.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Sentence structures are varied but errors are frequent, including 'i would able to enrolled', 'Although I am having shift', and inconsistent capitalisation of 'i', which occasionally impede clarity.

5.5

What to work on next

Clarify your actual current and requested start and finish times so the proposed schedule demonstrably reduces your working hours. Then proofread verb forms, articles and capitalisation.

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