English Language Writing Skills

By Danso Kwasi Nti Samuel (DAS). Study the complete course source, examine every model and practise alongside Professor Jarvis.

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The Body of Formal Letters

   •   Introduction of Formal Letters

Formal letters are letters written to people in their offices or high positions. For example,

president, ministers, headmaster, etc. With this in mind, the introduction to a formal letter

must be brief, as the readers have little time to read lengthy introductions. Stay glued to the

story, please! Well, let us move forward.

The steps to write the introduction of formal letters will go a long way to help us.

Steps in introducing formal letters

   •   Use a formal expression to introduce the topic of the essay.

   •   Prepare the background for the sub-topics.

   •   Bring out the sub-topics.

   •   Show readiness.

Thanks for following the lesson. Well, let us try and understand each of the steps in detail.

Here are the details of the steps.

Using a formal expression to bring the topic

The formal expressions are formal statements in permission; we ask or write to bring out our

concern or topic to the office we are writing the letter. Do you know examples of the formal

expressions? If you know, you have done well. But if you don’t have knowledge of any formal

expression, relax; after this part, you will be equipped with a lot of formal expressions.

Here are some of the formal expressions.

   1. I wish to draw your attention to:
   2. I would like to bring to your notice------------------------------------
   3. I wish to inform you of---------------------------------
   4. I write to inform you of---------------------------------------
   5. I wish to inform you that ----------------------------------