WRITING A COVER LETTER

Parts of a Business Letter This resource is organized in the order in which you should write a business letter, starting with the sender's address if the letter is not written on letterhead. Sender's Address The sender's address usually is included in letterhead. If you are not using letterhead, include the sender's address at the top of the letter one line above the date. Do not write the sender's name or title, as it is included in the letter's closing. Include only the street address, city, and zip code. Date The date line is used to indicate the date the letter was written. However, if your letter is completed over a number of days, use the date it was finished in the date line. When writing to companies within the United States, use the American date format. (The United States-based convention for formatting a date places the month before the day. For example: June 11, 2001. ) Write out the month, day and year two inches from the top of the page. Depending ...

In general you write leave letters to your HR manager of your company. Though there are few types of writing a letter to your HR manager, you cannot use all of them. The type which you select depends on the reason for application of leave. In order to help you to find out the most common way of writing a leave letter to your manager, a sample leave letter to manager is posted below. Letter: 28 th  September 2010. To John Abrabam, HR Manager, Simcol Granites Exports Ltd. Delhi. Dear John, I am writing this letter to inform you that I am in need of leave for two weeks for an important reason, which you can find in this letter. I want leave from the 1 st  of October to 14 th  of October. I will be back to office on 15 th  most positively and will take on all my pending works and complete it as soon as possible. The main reason for my leave is to complete the formalities of selling one of our family lands. Since, I am one of the joint owners of the property, I must prese...

Adjustment Letters An adjustment letter is a response to a written complaint. The objective is to inform the reader that their complaint has been received. It is also a legal document recording what decisions were made and what actions have or will be taken. Keep in mind that your reader has been inconvenienced. This is a prime goodwill building opportunity. Everybody makes mistakes and when a business owns up to one it goes along way to renewing the customer's confidence in a continued business relationship. The scope of your adjustment letter should reiterate the relevant facts of the claim. When the customer is right, include a forthright admission to that effect and extend a sincere apology. When the customer is not right, explain the reasons clearly and with every courtesy. Counter any negativity that may be in the complaint letter with a positive approach. Be gracious and emphasize the corrective steps being taken. Explanations for why the situation occurred are of less impor...

Usually for school student, parents tend to write leave letters for some obvious reasons. Children may fall sick often or when their parent to take them to some occasion or tour, they write a leave letter to their child’s class teacher or principal. When they address their child’s teacher, they use a polite format of content in their letter and ask leave for a specific and valid reason. Check out the following leaver letter to teacher sample. Letter: 31 st  August 2006 To Class Teacher, Grade II, National Public School, New York. Dear Madam, I am Stephen Samuel and I am writing this letter to inform you that my daughter, Sherlin Samuel, studying in your class was diagnosed with chicken fox and advised to take bed rest till she gets cured completely. I am fearing to send her to school as chicken fox is a communicable disease. I kindly request you to grant him leave till he gets completely cured and also to stay under continuous medical supervision to get quicker recovery. Thanks for...

____________ (Date) Dear __________ (name of the reader) Both you and I have noticed that for the past few months we have not been meeting each other as much as we would have loved to. The clear reason behind this is that we do not seem interested and involved with each other any longer. The urge to meet somehow has been buried somewhere. And to top it all I saw you with another person on _________ (date) at ________ (name of the place). I think this is a hint big enough to me to stay out of your life. I am just writing to inform you that I want to bring and end to this relationship now and forever. I know the break up is not entirely your fault and I too am to be blamed for it, but I guess someone had to make the first move. I have had some very good memorable moments of my life with you. Now I would like to leave you to a life of your own and I will lead my life the way I want to. This was the last way I would have liked our relationship to end but if it has to end it has to. You tak...

Summary: consoling a friend on a bad accident is usually the toughest thing on earth especially when you cannot make it yourself to personally visit him/her. At such moments, this sample letter will show you an easy way out to let your friend know that you treasure him/her Ronald K. Campbell 3161 Willis Avenue Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Date: Aug 06, 2002. Dear Ronald I hope that you find this letter in good health. I have been waiting to write you since a long time but unfortunately I came to know about your regrettable accident that met you just a few days back. Tell me how you are now and how did this happen in the first place? It’s been such messy traffic out there that people no longer care about the basic traffic rules and for the lives of others too. Traffic Rush has increased many fold. I came to know that you escaped the danger luckily in spite of fracturing your left leg. I am praying to God to help you recover as soon as possible but it is advised that once you have removed you...