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Write Express: Request Information on a Product or Service
How to write this letter: Ask the reader for the information you want. If applicable, tell the reader how you learned about the product or service or why you are interested in it. Inform the reader about how to contact you. Thank the...
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Speak Speak: Making Requests in Emails and Letters
We often have to make requests and ask for things in our letters and emails. To do this, we use phrases like 'could you' and 'would you.' Here we can see some examples of requests using these. Note the different levels of politeness.
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Enjoy English: Effective Inquiry Email Writing: Get the Information You Need!
The word inquiry means an act of asking for information. So, business inquiries email are email used to ask for information. It is very simple: you write an email to ask people for the information you need.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Letter Writing
Provides an overview on how to write a letter.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemp's Parent's Guide: Write
The author defines 11 steps children go through as they learn to write well, and provides suggestions of activities parents can do with their children to encourage the development of each of these skills.
College Grad
College Grad: Reality of Cover Letters
Take a look at the reality of how a cover letter is actually viewed (and reviewed) from a hiring manager perspective.
College Grad
College Grad: Best Use of a Cover Letter
So when should you use a cover letter? Only as part of a limited, targeted campaign to reach potential employers. Take the time to research and understand a company before committing yourself on paper as a potential employee.
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Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten: Launching Persuasive Writing in Kindergarten
A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Letter Writing in America
Article from the National Postal Museum on letter writing in America and how it became important as a tie between people exploring or settling in the new world and the sponsors or loved ones they left behind. With primary source material.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Valentine's Day Word Games
This article focuses on Valentine's Day word games including providing a word list for Valentine's Day, and suggesting activities such as writing love letters and playing Valentine charades.
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Washington Calligrapher's: Calligraphy Typeface Design
This brief page from the Washington Calligrapher's Guild gives several illustrations and explanations of calligraphy, lettering, and design. Teachers could use this as a short reference with examples.
University of Michigan
Transposed Tales of a French Missionary Among Indians in the Oregon Country
The author of this article writes of how letters written by French missionaries describing their experiences in Oregon in the 1800s, were greatly revised for publication in France, so that the narratives took on far more positive tones....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sample Note to Provide to Recommending Teachers
This resource is an article showcasing an note written by a student to a teacher confirming a request for a letter of recommendation.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 4th Grade
This article focuses on 4th-grade spelling words which include the following: abbreviations and acronyms, suffixes, capitalization, and silent letters.
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Teaching Ideas: Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Just as the title claims, here are fifty different ways to respond to a book. Most can be adapted to all grade levels.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Job Search Correspondence
Are you interested in learning about job search correspndence? Explore samples of a variety of letters to help you develop the tools to get the job.
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Lumen Learning: Memorandums
This site discusses the purpose and format of a memo and helps understand effective strategies for business memos.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is an Illuminated Manuscript?
Before the invention of the printing press in Europe around 1455, all books were handwritten and decorated. The word manuscript is derived from the Latin words manus (hand) and scriptus, from scribere (to write). Illuminated, from the...
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History.com: 8 Ways the Original 'Star Trek' Made History
When "Star Trek" premiered on NBC in the fall of 1966, it promised "To boldly go where no man has gone before." More than half a century later, it has done just that. The original "Star Trek," which lasted for only three seasons, birthed...
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