Full Block Style: The Most Appropriate Format Of Letter Writing

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The Full Block Style: The Most Appropriate Format of Letter Writing

Ramnath Singh Rathore Dhananjay Gogate
Asst. Professor(English) Sr. Lecturer(English)
MIT College ,Ujjain Shri Vaishnav Polytechnic College, Indore

ABSTRACT: The present paper deals with the different styles of letter composition, that is, indented style, Block Style, Semi-Block Style, Full Block Style, and Hanging-Indented Style. It also discusses merits and demerits of each of them. …show more content…

They play significant role to make communication effective and successful. Written communication is one of the types of verbal communication, which has various media of communication and letter writing is one of them. The success of any organizations also depends on its correspondence. As M. Ashraf Rizvi aptly says, “In fact, a letter is an important channel of communication used to send information outside an organization.”1 There are various styles of writing a good business letter namely Indented Style, Full Block Style, Semi-Block Style and Hanging-Indented …show more content…

Hanging-Indented Style

This format is also almost like block style of letter. The only difference is that the first line of each paragraph begins with the left margin and all the remaining lines in each paragraph are indented four to five spaces. Its look is unusual and it catches the attention of the reader quickly. This may be a disadvantage of this format because it leads the reader to focus only on the form rather than the message of the letter. This style consumes more time in typing due to many indentation and use of mixed punctuation. Therefore, this format has never been popular among the writers of letter writing. For example:

SURYA TRADING CORPORATION
40, Indore Road, Ujjain-456010

14 October, 2014

Sales Manager
Shiva Computers, Dealers in Intel
Dewas Road, Indore-4562009

Dear Sir,

We have seen your advertisement in The Hindustan Times of 12 October, 2014 about some of your significant products. The advertisement brought our attention to the products which are the products of our interest. We cordially want to buy these products so that we can facilitate our corporate office with these modern

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