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 ...

Leave application letter should be most effective so that when your employer takes a look at it, he should convince immediately and process your leave application. To write an effective leave letter, you must know some basic details to be covered in the letter. Take a look at the sample effective leave application letter shown below in order to know the basics of effective leave application letter. Letter: Jason O. Rodgers 2522 Farnum Road New York, NY 10016 12 th  May 2002 To Simon Charlie HR Manager, Lucetaic Ltd. Chennai. Dear Simon Charlie, I am writing this letter to inform you that I may not be able to attend office for three days from 15 th  May to 17 th  May 2002. My leave period can extend depending on the success of my work and completion of registration of one new land deal in the sub-urbs. If my legal registration work gets over in two days, I will be back to office in two days. In case of any changes in the schedule, I will inform you as soon as possible. I h...

Ms/Mr. ______________ Address Date: ___________ Subject: Cancellation of orders To, Dear Ms/Mr. ____________ This is with regard to the cancellation of orders placed by us to your company in the order no ______ (order no.) dated ________ (date of placing orders). We request you to kindly cancel all the orders and delivery of items as mentioned in the said document. We will like to bring to your notice that due to changes in the plan of company to manufacture certain kind of products we may not require the items provided by you, hence we are forced to cancel all the orders in this regard. We regret the inconvenience caused due to this. Kindly contact us in any case of settlement pertaining to the orders and delivery of items. We hope that any issue,  if at all will be settled by mutual consent. Any further communication in this regard may be directly mentioned and forwarded to me or any managers. Yours _______________ (Signature) _______________ (Name) _______________ (Designation)

Dear There is a problem with the underground water reserves in many areas of the   United States , and (area) is one of them.  This does not mean that the water you are currently   drinking  is contaminated. I really am not qualified to evaluate the  safety or lack of safety in   drinking   this water.  I can, however, guarantee that the water that we obtain from  mineral springs and sell   all over   the state   of (state)  is pure and safe. We have enclosed a self-addressed card which entitles you to a free quart of our   drinking   water which one of our service representatives will bring to your   home   in order that you may test it for yourself and see if it is to your liking. While he is there, he will be happy to explain our   home delivery  service program. If you would like to receive your   free sample of   our mineral springs water and l...

A leave application letter is written in general to apply for a leave of absence from office for certain period. The leave application letter should contain a valid reason for you leave application, which should convince the employer and make him to grant you leave. A sample leave application letter can be seen below where you can see the format, content and how one should present his reason to their employer. Letter: Patricia D. Clark 4474 Grand Avenue Apopka, FL 32703 12 th  December 2009 To Victor Samuel HR, TractTech Agencies, Florida. Dear Victor, I am writing this letter to formally inform you that my father is experiencing severe head pain due to brain tumour, which doctors diagnosed last week. Doctors also said that he must undergo a major surgery in order to remove the tumour. The operation is on 18 th  December and my father wants me to be with him till he recovers from this. Since we have no one here to support us, I am the responsible person to stay with him. Under...

Summary: This is the very simple way to submit the resignation and appreciating to the present company. The sincere thanks for the guidance and experience gained while working in the company, at the same time regretting their offer. The approach is pleasant and impressive. Rose Taylor, Accountant, Simala Paper Industries, 29 December 2008 Mr. James Kingston,CEO, Simala Paper Industries, New Jerssy, Dear Mr. Kingston, I had great pleasure in working with your industry for the past four years. Really, I have gained valuable experience and lerent a lot valuable things under the guidance of seniors working in the company. I take this opportunity to inform to you that I am considering to leave this company, as I have received an offer from another company with good hike which I am willing to accept. I therefore, request you to grant me an appointment for making things clear for you. I will be available for your assistant for future as and when required by you. Sincerely, I am glad for your ...