Hi Barb, Here's my two cents. You know I'm not a teacher, but I've taken the FCE (and the CAE and the CPE), so I think I know enough about those tests' requirements. The FCE writing task consists of two pieces of writing, one of

Hi pljames, welcome. You have a few problems with spelling but generally you are understandable. Native speakers with writing problems often make them worse by being too tense about their writing - you probably speak so as to be

I work for an online editing and proofreading service where we see many, many letters of motivation. Please see my profile for more information. I won't revise your whole letter here, but I will show you the changes I would make to your first

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Your letter is basically a good one and though I won't go through it sentence by sentence I will give you some basic suggestions to improve it. 1) Use spell check so you can avoid misspelling "treasurer" and other words 2) Check and

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Do you handshake or do you only bow? What about your friends families bosses? I am asking because we have just read and article in my reading classes at Warsaw University dealing with this custom. I believe the only time when protocol demands a

R J Valentine IMO: "Dear Fr. Fontana," unless you also spell out "Mister" (and other titles) in other greetings. Huh. And here was me thinking that "Fr." stood for "friar", not "father". MWCD11

Which of the two following salutations is more formal: "Yours truly" or "Regards"?? "Regards" has always struck me as very British. I never letters closed that way. "Best regards" sometimes occurs in AmE,

Thanks for the rule and the enlightment. I had (h)onestly never heard it. As one one of whose earliest posts to a.u.e. involved either an ignorance of the consonant-before-front-vowels rule or else exceptions ... example, uncertain as to whether