Business letters are formal letters sent by one professional to another. Writing business letters requires a somewhat unique writing method. However, while there are rules to follow when composing a ...

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, ...

The holiday season offers a good excuse to sit down and write a letter to someone you’ve been out of touch with, an exercise that benefits you and your recipient more than you might expect. Studies ...

Even though Meg St-Esprit only lives 30 minutes away from her niece, Avery, her family was thrilled when they found a letter from her in the mailbox. Since receiving it, St-Esprit's 6- and 8-year-old ...

Is letter writing a dying art? Not so fast. In today’s day and age, retro is cool again. Nostalgia is huge, and brands are increasingly marketing nostalgia to consumers who want to return to the 1990s ...

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 ...

Application Writing is the process of drafting a formal request to someone in an authoritative position to seek permission, ask for something, or apply for a post. An application is written in the ...

"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 ...

Frankie Meehan on the decline of letter writing and Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights campaign Your editorial (22 December) declares that the “writing’s on the wall” for letter writing.