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How to Format a US Business Letter

How to Format a US Business Letter

by Ali Hale

Whatever you do whether youre a student, employed in an office job, or working as a freelancer I can guarantee that at some point in your life, youll need to sit down and write a formal business letter. It might be to a customer, to an employer with a job that you want, or to apply for university funding. Perhaps itll even be to a literary agent or publisher who just might take on your undiscovered novel. Of course, youll want the letter to be wellwritten but almost as important is knowing how to format it correctly. This article is about US business letter format (for UK readers, dont worry, Ill be writing a follow-up one for you.) The main formats for business letters in the US are called full block format andmodified block format . Full block format means that all the elements of the letter are left-justified so that the start of each line is at the left-hand margin. This is the more formal style, so use it if youre unsure which to go for. Modified block format means that some elements of the letter are shifted over to the right. Nowadays, this style is appropriate in most contexts.

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