3. What makes a good letter?
1. Make people understand you.
2.To get them to take some action.
3. Keep the connection.
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4. 1. Make people understand you?
S.S.S. Short
Simple
Specific
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5. 2. To get them to take action.
P.A.S. Positive
Active
Simple
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6. Positive
“We will decide tomorrow”
“I think, you should get in touch more often”
“I’m afraid, it was a late respond”
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7. Active
Our technical team found the bugs
“Our technical team found some bugs in your code”
“I’ll send you the report tomorrow afternoon”
“We will consider it together at our next meeting today”
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8. Simple request
“It will be really helpful if you can finish it by Friday midday”
Could you look at it and write to me today please?
“I would really appreciate if you can meet me
at the airport at 3 p.m.”
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9. Structure of the letter ?
start
subject line
an emotion
state your
main point
the importance
of your letter
call to action
an emotion
closing the letter
questions
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10. Structure of the letter
1. Subject line
2.Start
3. An emotion
4. State your
main point
5. The importance of
your letter
6. Call to action
7. An emotion at the end
8. Closing
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19. A request from vacation has come to
our office from Julia, and after speaking
with admin staff, we approved 2 to 1
and we want to know if you have any
objection if she can take vacation from
12 of October to 15 of October.
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20. Julia’s requested a vacation
on October 12-15. Admin has
already approved it.
Could you also confirm?
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