This PowerPoint is ©2014 by Robin L. Simmons. All Rights Reserved. ENC 1101 From School Essay to Business Letter Requirements for the Last Essay Your last essay must convert to a formal business letter. You will also compose a résumé. You will do 100 points of prewriting for the essay. The final draft of the business letter will be worth 100 points. The final draft of the résumé will be worth another 100 points. Unit 4 is worth 300 total points. As this semester draws to a close, remember this important point: To write a successful personal essay, you must approach the topic in the right manner. What’s the right manner again? You should … Keep the topic singular. Narrow the topic so that your essay will not sound like everyone else’s. Incorporate personal experience so that your details will be unique. We’ve heard all of these strategies before! Directions: Write a thesis statement for each topic below. One of these will be your choice for the last essay. The best restaurant I have visited on a special occasion A cleaning product that I discovered does/does not perform as advertised A high school or college course that taught me far more than I expected A reason that an employer should hire me A requirement that has caused me difficulty in college Start Your Prewriting Compose 5 different thesis statements in class. Bring them to me. For homework, choose one of the two thesis statements I circled. Write a phrase outline for the paper. Begin the outline with the thesis statement you plan to use. Write detailed phrases of what you plan to cover in the paper. One or twoword items on the outline will be unacceptable. Use this sample as your guide. Write Your Rough Draft Your first draft should look like a regular essay. Use first person: I, me, my, mine. Tell stories about the restaurant, product, class, or college problem that you yourself have experienced. Do not use you. To get full credit, do the following: Rough drafts can be rough, so don’t worry about • Include a correct heading in the top left. • Give the essay an original and interesting title. • Reach the conclusion, with at least 500 words. spacing or neatness. Bring me the draft and your prewriting sheet for points. Type the draft as homework. Convert Your Essay to a Formal Business Letter, Part 1 Create a letterhead at the top of your document. Center your full name, address, and phone number. Skip four lines and add today’s date at the left margin. Jessica Rodriguez 5608 Swallowtail Court Orlando, FL 32811 (407) 555-3723 Letterhead identifies the writer of the letter. 4 lines separate the letterhead from the date. December 2, 2013 Convert Your Essay to a Formal Business Letter, Part 2 After the date, skip another four lines and add the inside address. This is the name and title [if you know them] and the address of the person/people receiving your letter. • For the restaurant topic, find the address of the specific location you visit. • For the cleaning product topic, find the corporate address • For the course topic, find the address of the school/campus where you took that class • For the politician topic, find his/her government office address • For the college requirement topic, use the address for Valencia’s West Campus. Jessica Rodriguez 5608 Swallowtail Court Orlando, FL 32811 (407) 555-3723 December 2, 2013 4 lines separate the date from the inside address. Stacy Harrison General Manager, Colonial Plaza Starbucks 1451 E. Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32806 Convert Your Essay to a Formal Business Letter, Part 3 Skip two lines and include a salutation. • Best: Use the person’s name and title— Dear Professor Grayson: • Good: If you do not have a person’s name, use as specific a greeting as possible—Dear Olive Garden Staff: • Worst: Avoid the generic To Whom It May Concern: or Dear Sir/Madam: • Use a colon after the salutation. Jessica Rodriguez 5608 Swallowtail Court Orlando, FL 32811 (407) 555-3723 December 2, 2013 Stacy Harrison General Manager, Colonial Plaza Starbucks 1451 E. Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32806 Dear Ms. Harrison: 2 lines separate the inside address from the salutation. Convert Your Essay to a Formal Business Letter, Part 4 The body of your letter should be single spaced with double space between paragraphs. Use full block style; this means that you should not indent paragraphs. Start each new paragraph at the left margin. When necessary, use second-person pronouns [you, etc.] to address the reader of the letter directly. Dear Ms. Harrison: 2 lines separate the salutation from the opening paragraph. My family and I came to your excellent establishment this past weekend for Grandma’s eightieth birthday, and I just want to say that you really made this special occasion memorable for all of us. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus erat tellus, dictum at, semper ac, congue at, nibh. Praesent non magna sit amet lectus rhoncus laoreet. Ut mollis elit. Donec sed nunc quis ligula posuere pulvinar. Etiam eleifend quam a nulla. Nulla magna ipsum, consectetur vitae, sollicitudin at, scelerisque at, quam. We were especially pleased with the food, special attention, and friendly atmosphere. Single space with double space between paragraphs. First let me compliment your food. Vestibulum hendrerit lobortis erat. Ut mauris lacus, adipiscing in, ultrices quis, pharetra sit amet, nunc. Morbi sed ligula. Pellentesque eu erat. Ut ullamcorper consequat urna. Ut malesuada elit eu nisl. Vivamus blandit sagittis nisl. Pellentesque vel sem. Sed hendrerit leo eu metus. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Phasellus vehicula, metus nec condimentum malesuada, nisl magna sollicitudin eros, a sagittis metus urna non nisi. Pellentesque laoreet fringilla neque. Quisque fermentum commodo purus. Effective Changes to Second Person First ofFirst all, ofyou Ms. Thuson were very was nice. very You nice. would let would letininus all, Ms. Thuson was very nice. SheShe would letus us eat eat her eat inroom your her room at lunch at lunch and sometimes and sometimes during during class.class. You room lunch and sometimes during She would talknot to us as her if we She atwould would talk to talk us toasusif as we ifwere weclass. were your her friends, friends, not your students, which I really appreciated. During these were her friends, not her students, which I really appreciated. During these conversations, I learned not only about the ocean but conversations, I learned only about the ocean also about lifeknow and also about life and not being an adult. You Ms.but Thuson did know did your her subject, marine marine biology, biology, really really well well and and shared shared books, beingsubject, an adult. Ms. Thuson did know her subject, marine biology, really books, PowerPoints, PowerPoints, and videos. and videos. Whenever Whenever I missedI missed class, I well andIIshared PowerPoints, and videos. Whenever I missed class, knew could knewbooks, count I could oncount your on generosity her generosity to get myself to get myself caught caught up.I could In class, up. Inyou class, shejust didn’t lecture. We would WeIn class, I knew count on herdidn’t generosity tolecture. getjust myself caught up. would talk and talk ask and questions; ask questions; we could we tell could thattell you that genuinely she class, she us didn’t lecture. We would the talk and ask questions; we could genuinely wanted wanted tojust learn us theto material. learn material. tell that she genuinely wanted us to learn the material. Convert Your Essay to a Formal Business Letter, Part 5 Include a closing. • Sincerely yours, • Best, • Yours truly, Use a comma after the closing. Skip four lines and type your name. Sign your name in pen in the space between the closing and your typed name. posuere, nisl at porttitor pharetra, elit libero rutrum sem, scelerisque commodo dolor est nec dolor. Sed fermentum condimentum eros. Vestibulum nec eros eu sapien pharetra venenatis. Etiam molestie malesuada lacus. Sed et augue. Cras lorem diam, convallis vitae, lacinia non, auctor eget, augue. Nam quis est. Pellentesque rhoncus pharetra justo. Maecenas ut nisi vel ante vestibulum blandit. Aenean ultricies. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Praesent eleifend adipiscing lacus. Phasellus non dolor in lacus sollicitudin ultricies. Integer nibh. Duis dictum tristique massa. Etiam aliquam, justo sed gravida consequat, dolor mi accumsan purus, vitae consequat enim purus ut nunc. Thanks again, 2 lines separate the concluding paragraph from the closing. Jessica Rodriguez Jessica Rodriguez 4 lines separate the closing from the typed name. Sign with pen between the two. The End.