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Professional Communication Essentials

This document discusses written modes of professional communication. It identifies genres used across professions including memoranda, meeting minutes, business proposals, letters, and social media. The document then focuses on the structure of business letters, outlining the seven key parts: heading, inside address, salutation, body, complimentary close, signature, and an example letter demonstrating these parts. Finally, it notes that while traditional genres now have social media counterparts, the structures remain essentially the same.

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Professional Communication Essentials

This document discusses written modes of professional communication. It identifies genres used across professions including memoranda, meeting minutes, business proposals, letters, and social media. The document then focuses on the structure of business letters, outlining the seven key parts: heading, inside address, salutation, body, complimentary close, signature, and an example letter demonstrating these parts. Finally, it notes that while traditional genres now have social media counterparts, the structures remain essentially the same.

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UNIT 5 : COMMUNICATION ACROSS PROFESSIONS

LESSON 1: WRITTEN MODES OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this lesson , you should be able to:
1. identify the genres used across professions;
2. demonstrate understanding of the structures of the various genres of
communication;
3. assess critically the various genres used across professions

How well can you write a business letter?

Written Modes Of Professional Communication

A. Genres Across Professions


 Memoranda
 Minutes of the Meeting
 Business Proposals
 Business Letters
 Social Media Channels
 Facebook
 Twitter
 LinkedIn

Parts of the letter:

A. Heading
 Modern – uses the company’s logo, address , telephone number
and other information.
 Conventional – includes the complete address of the writer and the
date.
B. Inside address – indicates the name and complete address of the
recipient of the letter
B. Salutation-the greeting part of the letter.
C. Body of the letter – contains the message and it must be clear, simple and
Focused.
D. Complimentary close – conventional farewell to the reader
E. Signature – the writer authenticates the veracity of the letter by attaching his/her
signatory

Illustration of a letter and its parts:

186 Gumamela
Guiwan
Zamboanga City
August 6, 2020
4spaces

Mr. Jose A. Ruiz ( Inside Address)


Proprietor
Zenith Enterprises
123 Dart Street
Paco, Manila

2spaces
Dear Mr. Ruiz: (Salutation)
2 spaces

(Body)
2 spaces
1

2 spaces
Sincerely yours,

4spaces

GEORGE E. SANTOS

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SYNTHESIS

There are 7 important parts of the letter which include the, heading, inside
address, salutation, body, complimentary close and signature.

The traditional genres now have their counterparts in the social media, their
structures are essentially the same

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