A brief look at teaching students how to write letters and at using letters as instructional tools in the junior high and high school English classroom. (RL)

Suggests ways of developing student skills in writing letters of request. (RL)

Explores the methodology of using more traditional types of business letter examples plus an unusual source, "The Lazlo Letters" (a compilation of letters written by comedian and comedy writer Don Novello), in a business writing class. (HOD)

An educator, a parent of a gifted child, recounts her son's use of the mail to increase his contact with the adult world, master typing skills, improve his writing, and become acquainted with the business world. (CL)

This paper reports how consultative work with teachers can be supported by the use of letters. Letters were written by an educational psychologist (EP) after a consultation meeting with a teacher. Features of therapeutic letter writing and solution-focused brief therapy were used to increase the collaborative intent of the letters. Follow-up…

Explains the importance of comprehensive annual financial reports, including introductory, financial, and statistical sections. Advises school districts to pay special attention to the letter of transmittal, which should provide information on services, financial highlights, economic forecasting, accounting principles used, and other pertinent…

Notes that high school counselors may be called upon to write letters supporting student applications to local community scholarship organizations. For those counselors asked to write such letters of recommendation to these groups, a number of suggestions are offered and discussed. (NB)

This simulation is intended for use as a culminating activity after students have been exposed to personal and/or business letter writing, use of reference manuals, typing of letters, mailing procedures, typing of numbers, punctuation practice, and filing procedures. Stated objectives are to enable students to type a mailable letter; to inspect,…

Discusses ways in which business communication students can create their own letterheads. (KS)

Describes a course in which technical writing students write letters to themselves stating goals they want to accomplish within the next 10 years, which the teacher promises not to read and to mail to them in exactly 10 years. Discusses purposes and actual results of assignment. (EL)

Letter poems make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun. Letter poems are also an apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry--line breaks. Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance. During the two 40-minute…

Designed for instruction in letter writing for secondary English classes, this article suggests that students write for free items. (DF)

Argues for the adoption of guidelines for letters to the editor and includes a model policy with suggestions concerning such items as length, content, appropriate staff responses, and style considerations. (TJ)

The Cambridge (Ohio) City Schools have started an e-mail program that provides opportunities for correspondence and for developing social writing skills, while placing the responsibility for success and appropriate behavior on the students. Discusses successes, problems encountered, and future plans. (PEN)

Discusses importance of the cover letter that accompanies mailed resume to introduce job candidate and his/her background to potential employer. Presents some guidelines that career planning and placement personnel can use in explaining the whys and hows of cover letters to students. Four steps to a good cover letter are given and examples of…