A recommendation request email generator for the professor who taught you and the deadline you cannot miss. Fill in their name, yours, the course, and optionally the grade, the date and what the letter is for, and you get a draft you can copy straight into your mail client.
It is for graduate school applications, jobs and scholarships where someone else has to write a paragraph about you. The hard part of these emails is not the writing, it is starting them, and a draft with your details already in it is easier to fix than a blank window.
The honest detail: the output is a form letter. Every professor who reads it will be able to tell it came from a generator, and the sentence that gives it away is “I hope this email finds you well”. Copy it out, rewrite the first line, and it becomes yours.
Generate a professional email to request a letter of recommendation. Fill in the details and get a ready-to-send template.
What you need to fill in
Three fields are required and the rest are optional. Professor name, your name and the course are checked before anything is generated, and if one is missing you get a plain message asking for all three rather than a half-built email. The grade, the deadline and the purpose are used only if you give them.
Purpose has three options: Graduate School, Job Application and Scholarship. It changes one phrase in the middle of the email, from “my graduate school application” to “my job application” or “my scholarship application”, and it is worth changing because that is the line telling the professor why you are asking.
The result appears in a read-only box under a heading, roughly 115 words with everything filled in, with the subject line already written as “Letter of Recommendation Request”. There is no send button. Nothing leaves your browser, and nothing is stored, so you copy the text and paste it wherever you actually send mail.
A worked example with real numbers
Professor: Dr. Jane Smith. Your name: John Doe. Course: COSC 3407. Grade: A. Deadline: 15 November 2026. Purpose: Graduate School.
What comes back opens with the subject line, then “Dear Dr. Jane Smith”, then the opening paragraph naming you and the course with the grade sentence attached, then the request paragraph naming the graduate school application and the deadline, then the offer to send a resume or personal statement, then the sign-off with your name under it. Three short paragraphs of body text and a closing, about 115 words in total.
Two things in that draft need your attention before you send it. The deadline prints exactly as you picked it, so “2026-11-15” appears in the sentence rather than “15 November 2026”, and you will want to write it out properly. And the grade sentence reads “I received a A in your course”, because the article is fixed as “a”. For A, A-, A+ and any other vowel grade, delete that sentence and write it yourself.
The email says you would be happy to provide a resume, personal statement or other materials. That is a promise the moment you hit send, so only keep it if those exist and you are willing to attach them the same day.
What it cannot do for you
It does not know your relationship with the professor. If you got a B, if it was a large lecture with 300 people in it, or if it has been three years, the email needs a line that says so, and that line is the difference between a reply and silence. The generated draft leaves that space empty.
It also does not know the deadline culture of your field or your professor’s inbox. Ask as early as you can and give them a realistic date, because a letter requested three days before it is due tends to be a short letter, and a letter requested a term in advance tends to be a good one.
And the box is read-only on purpose, so editing happens after you paste it somewhere else. Plan for one copy, one rewrite, one send.
Other tools
- Sentence counter for checking the length of what you wrote after you rewrite it
- Term progress for seeing how much of the term is left around application season
- 100 day challenge for the longer stretch these applications are part of
Frequently asked questions
How early should I ask for the letter?
Earlier than feels comfortable. Give them the deadline, the programme, and what you were like in the course, and ask with weeks to spare rather than days. A rushed request gets a rushed letter, and professors remember which students gave them time.
What if my grade was not great?
Then leave the grade box empty. The sentence is optional, and a strong relationship with the professor beats a transcript line every time. If you did well in one assignment specifically, mention that instead in your own words.
Can I edit the email inside the tool?
No, the output box is read-only. Copy the text into your mail client or a document first, then edit there. The tool’s job is to get the structure and the names right quickly, not to be your editor.
Does it send the email for me?
No. Nothing is transmitted, saved or queued. Everything happens in the page, so the only way anything leaves is when you copy it out and press send yourself.
Which purpose should I pick if it is for two things?
Pick the one with the nearest deadline, since that is the phrase in the email, and then rewrite the sentence after you paste it. The phrasing is one line out of a hundred and it is the easiest line in the draft to change.