Step 1 - Identify your reader

Informal

• Openings for letters/emails

• Language

• Signing off for letters/emails

Formal

• Openings for letters/emails

• Language

• Signing off for letters/emails

Step 2 - Make a plan

1. Your own address

• How should this look?

1. Their address
2. Date in full
3. Salutation
4. Why you are writing to them
5. Clear paragraphs
6. Final paragraph (asking them to write back, any questions?)
7. Closing.

Step 3 - Practice

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Step 4 - Write!

Formal letter Scenario (class)

A client has asked BIT to select various students and create a website for their business.

✨You are the chosen one✨ You must respond to them;

1. Thanking them for the opportunity