Business English: A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

privilege of recommending a young man for the entrance examinations of your state university. Write to him, asking that he recommend you. Remember that he is a stranger to you. What should you tell him? =Exercise 222.--Mistaken Ideas in Letter Writing= It is too bad that, to a number of people, the term _business letter_ conveys the idea of a colorless, stilted composition full of trite and almost meaningless business formulas. No one reads such a letter unless he has to, and surely that is not the kind one should practice writing. Below are given a few of the expressions that should be avoided. I. Sometimes a writer tries to impress a reader with the volume of business he is doing by showing haste in his correspondence; as, in