Business Letter

Communication through exchange of letters is known as "CORRESPONDENSE"

After writing the letter, you must determine your purpose and audience.

Type the letter using a word processor. Formal letters should be written by hand.

In a bussines letter avoid informal language but do not use old-fashioned or over-formal language.

A Businessman writes and receives letters in his day to-day transactions, which may be called business correspondence.

According to M. Omar Ali, “The letters which are exchanged among businessmen connected with business affairs are called business or commercial letters.”

These are the Parts of the Business Letter:

*TheLetterhead *TheDate *TheReferenceLine *TheInsideAddress *TheSalutation *TheMessage

*The Complementary Closing *The Signature *The Initials *Enclosures *Extra Copies *The Envelope

In the letter head, you shuold include:
CompanyName and Address.

The Inside Address must contain the recipient’s information, such as: Name, title, full address, company, and position

The salutation goes two or three lines before the inside address

The message or body is the last part of the letter

there are five types of the business letter

these are some of types of business letter:

*QUOTATION LETTERS *REFUSAL LETTERS *ACKNOWLEDGMENT LETTERS