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Business Letter

• Sender’s Address
• Date
• Recipient’s Address
• Salutation
• Subject
• Body
• Greeting
• Enclosure

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Body of a Business Letter

Capitalise the first word of the text (even if the salutation ends with a comma). The text is left-justified and a blank line is put after each paragraph. It is not common to indent the first line of a paragraph.

Content

• first paragraph: introduction and reason for writing
• following paragraphs: explain your reasons for writing in more detail, provide background information etc.
• last paragraph: summarise your reason for writing again and make clear what you want the recipient to do

Changed: 10th Dec 2010 19:33

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