Types of Business Letter
There are two types of business letters.
1. Business Letter
2. Personal Business Letter
1. Business Letter
2. Personal Business Letter
Business Letter
Letter Format
Parts of a Letter
- Block style
- all lines begin at left margin.
- Easiest and fastest style to use.
- Mixed punctuation
- colon greeting
- comma after closing.
- Font
- 12pt.
- times, arial, calibri, helvetica.
- Line Spacing
- single spaced
- blank line between paragraphs.
Parts of a Letter
- Date
- Example: January 28, 2013.
- Inside address
- name, job title and address of the person you are sending the letter to.
- Salutation
- This is a greeting.
- Dear Mr. Smith.........
- Body Paragraphs
- Complimentary Closing
- The goodbye
- Sincerely,
- Writer’s Identification
- Your contact informations.
Personal Business Letter
Personal Business Letters
- From an Individual to a business
- Thank You
- Job (cover letter)
- complaint
Special Notation
- Typist initials
- initials of the person who typed the letter
- Two lines below the writer’s identification
- Lowercase, no punctuation
- Enclosure or Attachment
- line below the typist initials
- indicates if anything else is in the envelop with the letter attached to it.
- Delivery
- the way the letter was delivered.
- Copy
- names of other people who received the letter