Letter Writing Assignment

How you write the letter will depend on your relationship with the recipient. How to write proper openings and closings for your  letter-writing assignment. Decide how formal your letter needs to be. Consider these guidelines, there are three types of letters:

1. Formal - If you're writing to a government official, prospective employer, dignitary, academic official or anyone else with whom you hope to have a professional relationship, the letter should be formal
2. Semi-formal - If you're writing to your current employer, a co-worker you don't see socially, a distant or elderly relative, or someone you don't know very well, the letter should probably be semiformal.
3. Informal - If you’re writing to someone you know personally or when you are writing subjectively to express your own private feelings and thoughts.