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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A BUSINESS LETTER AND A SOCIAL LETTER

POINT OF CONTRAST
Purpose

BUSINESS LETTER

SOCIAL LETTER

To sell, to buy, or to To promote or promote a good terminate good business relationship social relationship Financial or money matter, business related topics Formal Variety of topics not related to business Informal

Subject/ Content

Format

Point of view

Usually third person, Usually first-person, sometimes second- sometimes second person or third person Impersonal Personal

Style

Pont of contrast
Language

Business letter
Business parlance, commercialese Unemotional

Social letter
Laymans language, telegrahese Emotional

Emotionality

Objectivity

Objective

subjective

Letter Parts

Basic miscellaneous parts

Basic parts except inside address

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