Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Letter format

When writing a letter to an elected official-use a proper format. This not only looks better, but will ensure that you receive a response!!
See below:

March 16, 2001

Dear Mr. English:

The first paragraph of a typical business letter is used to state the main point of the letter. Begin with a friendly opening; then quickly transition into the purpose of your letter. Use a couple of sentences to explain the purpose, but do not go in to detail until the next paragraph.

Beginning with the second paragraph, state the supporting details to justify your purpose. These may take the form of background information, statistics or first-hand accounts. A few short paragraphs within the body of the letter should be enough to support your reasoning.

Finally, in the closing paragraph, briefly restate your purpose and why it is important. If the purpose of your letter is employment related, consider ending your letter with your contact information. However, if the purpose is informational, think about closing with gratitude for the reader's time.

Sincerely,

Lucy Letter

123 Winner's Road
New Employee Town, PA 12345

5 comments:

juggy said...

this is a very good instruction to making a very well written letter it would surely receive a response if sent to someone or something

Gangster Conservative said...

This is pretty good info... all people who are into government action needs to read this article....i don't think i would ever use it but somebody must have sent a lot of letters to figure out those tricksss...nice work whoever figured this out...

logey loge said...

do i get credit for blogging on this. cause that would be cool. i learned how to write a letter.

Anonymous said...

WOW i had no idea about how to write a letter in such a wonderfull format, thank you so much for this. i can now look somewhat intelligent when writing to someone important, as for the spelling part, who knows

SadieS said...

I think this would have been useful last semester! i think that it's a good way to right a letter when it's to someone important because you want the letter to seem like you know what your talking about so they will listen.