The following sentences taken from letters are discourteous,boastful, excessively humble, vague, or lacking the “you attitude.”Rewrite them to correct those mistakes.

a. Something is obviously wrong in your head office. They haveonce more sent me the wrong model number. Can they ever get thingsstraight?

b. My instructor wants me to do a term paper on safetyregulations at a small factory. Since you are the manager of asmall factory, send me all the information I need at once. My gradedepends heavily on all this.

c. It is apparent that you are in business to rip off thepublic.

d. I was wondering if you could possibly see your way intosending me the local chapter president’s name and address, if youhave the time, that is.

e. I have waited for my confirmation for two weeks now. Do youexpect me to wait forever or can I get some action?

f. Although I have never attempted to catalog books before, andreally do not know my way around the library, I would very muchlike to be considered at some later date convenient to you for apart-time afternoon position.

g. It goes without saying that we cannot honor your request.

h. May I take just a moment of your valuable time to point outthat our hours for the next three weeks will change and we trustand pray that no one in your agency will be terribly inconveniencedby this.

i. Your application has been received and will be kept on filefor six months. If we are interested in you, we will notify you. Ifyou do not hear from us, please do not write us again. The soaringcosts of correspondence and the large number of applicants make theburden of answering pointless letters extremely heavy.

j. My past performance as a medical technologist has leftnothing to be desired.

k. Credit means a lot to some people. But obviously you do notcare about yours. If you did, you would have sent us the $249.95you rightfully owe us three months ago. What’s wrong with you?

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