Video: The art of writing a letter
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At all times, writing has been a very popular (and sometimes the only) means of communication. Not surprisingly, letter writing has been elevated to the status of a full-fledged art. Beginning with the lyceum, they took into account how to write letters beautifully. It was believed that an educated person simply must be able to write beautiful letters. Those who did not have an easy syllable turned to more gifted people for help; writing letters was not a free service. Now the situation has not changed at all, except that letters have also become electronic.
With the help of letters, modern man exchanges very large flows of information. The letter can describe the latest news, it can contain an appeal or an offer, the letter can be inviting or informational. But in any case, it must be correctly drawn up.
If earlier very high requirements were imposed on letters (good paper, high-quality ink, glue that does not spread), now everything is much simpler. It is enough to compose the letter correctly - without spelling and grammatical errors. In e-mails, it is permissible to put all sorts of smiles-pictures, if this is a letter to a loved one. Business letters exclude the presence of such elements, unless the opponents have known each other for a long time, and there is a certain level of trust and understanding. In a way, e-mail gives more indulgences, wrote a letter, came to my senses - canceled. But there are also funny things when a letter for one person can be sent to many people who do not need to know why you divorced your wife, or how you bought furniture last summer. That is why the buttons must be pressed correctly and carefully. Also, e-mail provides the ability to design a letter. But here again you need to proceed from the person for whom the letter is being written. If this is the director of a partner company with whom you periodically play golf, then in such a letter it is permissible to have a logo and basic information about the company and that's all. What comes as an add-on may be superfluous.
The important elements of an email are a greeting, a message, and a signature. If you are in a dialogue with a person, then the time of day at which you communicate is indicated. If you are just writing to a person, then it is better to put a neutral "good afternoon". The signature must contain the name, surname, phone number and skype (or email). The addressee, of course, will see from which service the letter came, but it will not hurt to make his life easier either. The Post.su mail service makes it possible to compose such a signature automatically and not to suffer, typing the same details every time.
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