Re: Formal Letter - author codes, and the use of "Con't"...

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:03:53 GMT

There are nearly 3 million google hits and 2 million yahoo hits for CON'T as the abbreviation for continue/continued.
It's not a form listed in popular dictionaries.

cont.
contd
cont'd
cnt

Why do you suppose it has become so common?
Perhaps:
- It's an abbreviation of an existing abbreviation: cont'd / con't
- The apostrophe is a stress mark for the pronunciation of the word instead of replacing letters
- Abbreviations can have slang forms too

Re: Check my grammar , and repait my formal letter please

Feebs11 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:55:38 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
I muist write formal letter (120 -150 words) with information for goup of student :
- What they should take .
- Where they will stay.
- What they will see.
- Wish them good travel.

Dear Mr John,
I will be ~~keeper~~ [wrong word - leader/supervisor/liaison officer] of your students group [student group OR students's group]. I'm writing to you to give you some useful hints.
First of all, you are going to stay at a fully furnished [delete comma - not required here] private flat with room for each one of students [Unclear - a room for each student OR room for all the students?]. They will have 3 [spell out numerals below 10 - three] meals (breakfast, dinner and supper).
Student must remember ~~about~~ [their] documents, which are needed when crossing the border, and have some cash to buy additional drinks and food. ~~Take~~ [Bring] umbrellas and raincoats ~~, beacouse now we have rainy season~~ as this is the rainy season.
~~Of course~~ [Also/in addition} we will do some sightseeing~~. We come to see~~ in Cracov with its Castle and the Wieliczka Salt Mine. Both are listed on the UnescoWorld Heritage List
I can't wait to meet your group and I ~~wish~~ hope you have a nice, ~~safety~~ safe trip ["journey" would be better here].
Your's [NO APOSTROPHE> Yours] faithfully,

Can some one check and repair it?

A Good Business Letter...?

Heimdall — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:51:03 GMT

I am college freshman writing a business letter for my dad's business oversea. I'm doing so because no one at his place speaks/writers acceptable English. So, I am drafted to write a letter (not e-mail) for him to a big company requesting for partnership. The my dad's marketing manager sketched me general idea that started as a 130 word e-mail.

Talk about responsibility. Even though I plan to be an English major (not business major, and Iâm ESL to a certain extent), I have no idea whether I'm doing this right. I've written cover letters for college applications before, but that's a completely different business, no pun intended.

Anyways, I looked through Wikipedia for info on business letters, but I still have a few more questions. I can't broad cast the content of this letter, so I will try to summarize the tricky parts as best as I could.

1. I am supposed to be writing as a marketing manager to this big company and offering them assistance in several events they will be hosting. Does the heading "Offer of Assistance for Future *** Events" sounds stupid?

2. My letterhead contains our companyâs name and address. Can I put phone, fax, e-mail, and homepage in the letterhead too? If not, where should I put it? (Technically theyâre on the envelope, too. I just want to be sure.)

3. I begin the letter with "I am ***, the International Marketing Manager for *** Information Corporation^Â®." Is that what people do? Or do they start with something else?

4. The general outline of the letter is as follows:

-letterhead

-Date

-Dear Sir or Madam

-Header ("Offer of Assistance for Future *** Events")

-Content (starting with "I am ***, the International Marketingâ¦â¦")

#we would like to help your event in such and such a way

#detail of our plan

#detail of product (includes instruction of getting free trial on-line, which I have an url typed)

#detail/history of company

#ending (includes personal contact info.)

-Sincerely

*** (Signature by hand)

-International Marketing Manager

*** Company

The letter now totals about 3000 words, a little bit more than a page if single-spaced. Anything missing or out of order or whatnot?

5. I wanted to leave an instruction for the receiver if they are interested, so in the penultimate line I said "If our proposal is acceptable, please contact me through e-mail at Icantwritebusinessletter@english.com" The reason why I want them to use e-mail is because the real marketing manager who I am writing as couldn't really speak English, even though he/she reads English pretty well. What is the proper way of leaving personal contact information? I do have a letter head that contains the contact address of the company, but I feel I need to have personal info (e-mail, phone, fax, etc) as well. Where do I put it? After the signature? In what order?

6. What is the etiquette for leaving url and e-mail in an formal letter?

7. I ended the letter with "On behalf of my company, I invite you into this partnership." I think it sounds funny, but I don't know what to do.

8. What do I put after the signature? The example letters Wikipedia had are somewhat conflictingâ¦

9. We have formal envelope for our company, but do I print (as with a printer) the name and address of the receiver, or do I write it with hand with a pen?

10. How do I use the small circled trademark ^Â®? I have it on the righthand corner after every mention of our company's and product's name, though I donât know if thatâs proper. Moreover, if I have ââsâ after the names, should I put the R before or after the apostrophe?

11. One problem we have now is that our company does not have formal letter paper, so I have to set it up myself. Are there anything I should be aware of? Do I need to treat the letter with procedures (such as rubber stamps) or use a particular kind of paper?

12. Anything you think I would do wrong and didnât notice?

I know this is a huge question, but any help will be appreciated, even if you could just point me in the right direction!

Thank you!!

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Re: Formal Letter - author codes, and the use of "Con't"...

Re: Check my grammar , and repait my formal letter please

A Good Business Letter...?