Knowing how to write a formal letter is a very important life skill. Although a lot of our day-to-day written communication is by email, text message or social media, there are many times you will ...

Writing an effective business letter is an important skill no matter what type of job you hold. Although business communications have become much more casual with the advent of the internet and email, ...

I ONCE read in an astrological magazine that China, like a good many people I know, was under the sign of Pisces, which is conducive to sloth and a kind of easygoing indolence, and perhaps for this ...

Good tidings to you! I write this letter today to tell you: personal writing is tough. Sure, elementary school might have taught us about structure and form — the textbooks say a well-composed letter ...

Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

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Portrait of Jane Baillie Carlyle (formerly Jane Baillie Welsh), circa 1845. For centuries, biographers have been able to rely on a priceless resource when it comes to 18th, 19th and 20th century ...

Writing letters of reference for your employees is an important part of the employee separation process when a company closes. A company shutdown is a difficult situation for everyone involved, but a ...