You are studying for a qualification, and you would like some time off work to complete it. Write a letter to your manager. In your letter: Ask for some time off to complete a qualification. Suggest what you will do later at work if you have time off. Say how the qualification helps your job or company.

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Dear Mr Silva, I am writing
this
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to you to seek your approval on my personal time off to complete my academics. As you may be aware I am doing a master's in Project Management, and it is going to finish in
next
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month. So these days, I am busy finalizing my research document which I need to submit on the 24th of September. Just after finishing the research, we have to sit for the final exams.
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, it would be really helpful if I can have some day off from my regular duties focused on the exam. Being a project manager for the
last
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ten years, I felt the real value of doing
this
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course as suggested to me during
last
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year's performance evaluation. Actually now I realize how you became so successful in handling the projects with a neat timeline as well as achieving good results . I hope I would do the same since I have been assigned to lead the
next
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project that we are hoping to do with the Indian company. I would appreciate your immediate attention to
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matter, and I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Supun
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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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