How to write right!

2. • Email
• Report
• Article
• Minutes Of Meeting (MOM)

3. The three main categories of people we write mails to:
• Boss
• Colleague
• Client

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5. Put yourself in the Receiver‟s shoes
The person receiving your mail
Remember, your readers may know
nothing about what you're telling them

7. • Leave Application For 03-12-2014
• With Ref. To The Meeting/Call As On 12-13-2013
OR
• With Ref. To The „Hello Kitty‟ Cartoon

8. • Your email should open by addressing the person you‟re
writing to.
• For someone you don‟t know well, especially if they‟re a
superior or if you have a working relationship with the
person, always address „Dear.‟
• If you know the person well, use „Hi Bob‟ or „Hello Jerry‟

9. • You can even use just the name with a comma (Jerry,)
• If you know the person well, like your team mate, using
„Dear Garry‟ will look odd.

10. • Get straight to the point.
• Split your email into two to four short paragraphs, each
one dealing with a single idea.
• Consider using bullet-points for extra clarity, or if you
have too many points to cover.
• Follow the KISS principle. Keep It Short & Simple

11. • Listing several questions for the receiver to answer.
• Suggesting a number of alternative options.
• Explaining the steps that you‟ll be carrying out.

12. • If you need to write about several different issues (for
example, if you‟re giving your boss an update on Project X,
asking him for a review meeting to discuss a pay hike, and
telling him that you‟ve got a doctor‟s appointment on
Friday), then don‟t put them all in the same email.
The receiver is a
human, not a
computer to put the
different topics in
different folders.

13. • Emails should follow the same rules of punctuation as
other writing.
• Never write a whole sentence (or worse, a whole email) in
capitals
• Always capitalise “I” and the first letter of proper nouns
(names)
• Capitalize acronyms (USA, BBC, NSE)

14. • Always start sentences with a capital letter.
• Writing a particular word in capital showing it is
important or needs to be looked upon is a myth.

15. • For short internal company emails, you can get away with
just putting a double space after your last paragraph then
typing your name.
• If you‟re writing a more formal email, it is essential to
close it appropriately.

16. • Use Yours sincerely, (when you know the name of your
addressee) and Yours faithfully, (when you‟ve addressed
it to “Dear Sir/Madam”) for very formal emails such as job
applications.

17. • Use Best regards, or Kind regards, in most other
situations.
• Even when writing to people you know well, it‟s polite to
sign off with something such as “All the best,” “Take
care,” or “Have a nice day,” before typing your name.

18. • Don‟t cram your email signature with quotes from your
favourite TV show, motivational speaker or witty friend.
• Do include your name, email address, telephone number
and postal address (where appropriate) – obviously, your
company may have some guidelines on these.

19. • It makes it easy for your correspondents to find your
contact details: they don‟t need to root through for the
first message you sent them, but can just look in the
footer of any of your emails.

20. • Always, always proofread you emails before you hit the
„Send‟ button.
• Check spellings, sentence formation, capitalization and
usage of the correct words (affect/effect, it‟s/its,
you‟re/your, than/then.
• Read from the receiver‟s perspective.

21. i‟ve attached my resume i would be grateful if you could
read it and get back to me at your earliest convenience. i
have all the experience you are looking for – i‟ve worked in a
customer-facing environment for three years, i am
competent with ms office and i enjoy working as part of a
team. thanks for your time

22. Dear Sir/Madam,
I’ve attached my resume. I would be grateful if you could read it and get back
to me at your earliest convenience. I have all the experience you are looking
for:
• I’ve worked in a customer-facing environment for three years
• I am competent with MS office
• I enjoy working as part of a team
Thanks for your time.
Yours faithfully,
Joe Bloggs