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 ...

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...