Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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