Week 6: WRITING WORKPLACE CORRESPONDENCE

FEATURED CILL WEBPAGE - Business Letters: format

 

             http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eiw/arrangemeetingletter.htm

            This interactive exercise illustrates the format and layout of a modern business letter.

 

1. TOP TWO Websites - Brilliant Business Letters

Just click on the URLs and off you go!

1.         http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa041399.htm

This web-site above gives a short guide to writing a business letter. Note down your answers to the questions below, then have a look to check your ideas.

1. When do we use the following phrases to begin a business letter?

  • Dear Sir or Madam,
  • Dear Mr., Mrs. Miss or Ms.,
  • Dear Jenny,

2. When do we use the following phrases to finish a letter?

  • Yours faithfully,
  • Yours sincerely,
  • Best wishes,
  • Best regards,

2.         http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_basicbusletter.html

Consider the two questions below:

  1. What are the 7 main parts of a business letter? Write down the names of the parts on paper.
  2. How is a business letter laid out? Use the names from 1. to draw an outline of a business letter. Check your ideas with the web-site above.

 

2. Boost Your Writing Skills - with selected rules

Rule 7

Make the subject and verb agree with each other, not with a word that comes between them.

Want to see the three example-sentences written with the above rule, click the above hyper-link.

The site is hosted by Junket Studies Tutoring -- a private tutoring service in northern New Jersey

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Concordancing – Exercise 5