Tugas Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1

Assigment For English Business 1

I.   Business English Letter

    Before writing a business letter should we have to know first the sense of the letter. Letter is a communication that is used to convey information in writing by one party to the other party. In addition we also have to understand the structure of business letter writing, therefore I'm going to make an example the Parts of business letter writing, as follows:

1. Letter Head

    Letter head or so-called letter head, this position is located at the top of the letter containing the company name, phone number, email, and company logo. At the head of this letter is useful to facilitate the recipient knows the identity of the sender of the letter. 

2. Date

     Date on the letter is useful to know when the letter was made, the date is usually located on the upper right, but some are put at the top left. At this date, there are two styles of writing, the British style and American style.

Types of English letter:

   ·    British style: the same writing style as on Indonesia, which begins on the date, month and year.

Example: British style format (Day-Month-Year)

17th december 2012, the british also be in wrote by adding the suffix numbers rise as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc.

 ·   American style: Style in American style of writing is different from the British style, as written starting from writing month, date and year.

American style format (Month-Day-Year)

december 17, 2012.

3. Inside Address

Inside address or the address is usually called, is located at the upper left. In this section useful to write the address to the recipient.

4.  References

Used as archiving or documentation letter sent or received. Usually the posts are underlined.

      Example: Your Ref: YTS/C7, Our Ref: Con/11/7

      Reference is usually written after writing inside address and before the subject.

5.  Subject

Subject commonly called the subject, which shows what the contents of the letter. On business letters, usually placed under the inside address.

                 ·       British style: subject written under the Salutation.

                 ·       American style: Salutation written on the subject.

6. Salutation

     Salutation or greeting is commonly called, is located at the top position before writing the letter, Salutation is useful to write the name of the person or agency name we want to send the letter, but if the recipient is unknown gender, we write salutation with "Dear Dear Sir or Madam ".

Examples of writing : 

·         British style: Dear Sir / Dear Sirs, Dear Madam / Madam.

American style: Gentlemen, Ladies, To whom it may concern

7. Body Of The Letter

     Body of the letter or the letter is commonly called, is located after the opening greeting, the contents of this letter contains the core of the letter, so that contents of this letter should be clear that the subject of the letter recipients can understand the contents of the letter that we wrote. 

8. Complementary Close

   Complementary close or commonly called closing greeting, in this section is located after the body of the letter. In writing this letter, it can be seen an example of complementary close as follows:

For example:

·         American style: Sir, Madam, Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant, Sincerely Yours.

·        British style: Dear Madam, Dear Sirs, Dear Mr, Dear Miss, Dear Mrs., Mr. David.Yours Sincerely, Sincerely, With Best Wishes.

9. Signature

           In part this is a signature of the sender of the letter, written after the signature is complementary close and located at the bottom right, in addition to containing the sender's signature, the signature must be followed by the full name of the sender.

     

      10. Enclosure

           Enclosure or common called attachment is located at the lower left, this attachment is used if we include additional documents sent with the letter we sent.

      For example if I want to send the results of a company and it usually is in the attachment.

     11. P.S (Postscript)

          It is advisable to avoid postscript on business english letter and aims to find out who makes the letter, the postscript is located on the bottom left of the letter.

     12. Carbon Copy Notation

          Carbon copy notation or commonly called a copy, which is located in the lower left corner is a copy of the letter, which aims letter was written if there is a third party involved who need to know the contents of the letter.

Writing sample.

cc: Manager.

cc: Director.