It is an honor to be asked to be someone’s character reference. But even if you are enthused about helping a friend or colleague out, you might feel a little intimidated by the prospect of putting the ...

Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed ...

The day has come that you are moving on from one role to the next. Perhaps you are leaving your job because you just landed a new offer at your dream company. Maybe you are heading out into the great ...

This formal notice is sometimes written to announce to the workplace that the employee has left the company. But in most cases, it is a letter that you write to your vendors, customers and clients, so ...

Although grant applications will typically require a LOS from either the President or Provost, it will, at times, be appropriate for other entities to write the LOS. For example, you might require a ...

Many of the letters you write in business are designed to influence the ideas or behaviors of others. Persuasive letters to sell something should have a unique formula, immediately grabbing a reader's ...

In her new book, Syme's Letter Writer, Rachel Syme of The New Yorker explains how to write a delightful letter to a loved one. Unlike texting and email, old-fashioned letters, hand-addressed and sent ...

Good tidings to you! I write this letter today to tell you: personal writing is tough. Sure, elementary school might have taught us about structure and form — the textbooks say a well-composed letter ...