Guest  +  45853 Thu, 16 Sep 04 04:08 PM Hey, i'm writing a formal letter to the embassy of Australia for a Honors International Studies class. i just need a set up on how to write it . This is wat i think im suppose to do just correct me if im wrong. my address town/state zip code date name of ambassador embassy address town/state zip code Dear Sir I'm looking for information about your country etc etc . Yours truly, Mrs. Guest Obviously it will be longer lol. but i just wasntnt sure to double space after sentences or paragraphs cause im looking at this one and its after every sentence and i didnt know if he was just tring to keep it short or really double spacing after every sentence. Thanks for your Help =) Guest Dates, Formal Letter, Formal Letters, Paragraphs

	anon1  +  45864 Thu, 16 Sep 04 05:00 PM Dear Mrs. Guest, I encourage you to register though it is not required. As far as spacing is concerned, I would single space my sentences and I would leave a space between paragraphs. This is only a letter, not a manuscript. So it is no big deal either way. I would encourage you to only ask questions that cannot be answered through other means. My guess is that most of the information about Australia is available on the Internet somewhere. People get upset if they believe you are passing your work onto them. But you are taking an International Honors Class, so I trust you have exhausted the normal sources of information. Everything else seems fine, with the exception that you need a colon after Dear Sir. As a matter of personal style, I tend to avoid contractions in formal letters. I use "I am looking" as opposed to "I'm looking". To me, the latter seems a bit lazy. But that is just personal style. Good luck. MountainHiker anon1 Joined on Fri, Jul 2 2004 Senior Member 2,049 Formal Letter, Formal Letters, Paragraphs, Contractions, Colons

	SnowBoarder437  +  45868 Thu, 16 Sep 04 05:15 PM Thanks MountainHiker, I registered and posted what i have so far and just asked a few basic question. I did ask my teacher why we had to write the letter when we can get most of the information in the internet and he just said it added to our portfolio at the end of the year. SnowBoarder437 Joined on Thu, Sep 16 2004 New Member 02 Formal Letter, Formal Letters

	anon1  +  45875 Thu, 16 Sep 04 05:45 PM Snowboarder, Take my post and show it to your teacher. His request to his students to bombard an embassy official with useless requests for information is very rude. And that is being polite. If you saw this letter as an example of a person's "portfolio" would you even want to see the rest? Not me. This person is lazy, of no value. Sorry I can't be more positive, but I think your International Class, Honors no less, is being extremely rude by asking embassy officials for very basic information. And what's worse, you don't even care about the answers that the embassy official might provide. You simply want to have another letter in your portfolio. I am not sure what else there is to say. Shameful. Yes, that works. MountainHiker anon1 Formal Letter, Formal Letters

	Clive  +  517575 Fri, 23 May 08 12:10 AM Hi, Post it here and let us have a look at it. best wishes, Clive Clive Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Canada Veteran Member 29,583 El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo