1. What are the six required parts of a business letter?

 

2. What are the five required parts of a friendly letter? How does friendly letter differ from a business letter?

3. How does full block style differ from semi-block (aka indented) style? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each style?

4. Most textbooks get this wrong, your textbook gets memo (aka memorandum) writing wrong. Their lone example is too much like a letter. They are supposed to be different. The required parts of a memo are 1. the word memo, 2. To:, 3. From:, 4. Initial, 5. Re: (subject); 6. Body; 7. Additional recipients (optional), and 8. Enclosures (optional). How does a memo (memorandum) differ from a business letter?

5. Compose a business letter to an individual, politician, privately-held company, partnership or corporation with whom you have had some difficulty as a consumer, customer, constituent, or business person. If you do not know their real address, you may look it up or make one up.

6. Compose a friendly letter to a hero, celebrity (athlete, writer, or movie, television or recording star), friend, former teacher, or politician. Include the required parts of a friendly letter.

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1 The six required parts of a business letter are the heading the date the inside address the salutation the body and the complimentary close The heading contains the senders name and address the date ... View the full answer