How to write a formal letter

I am enquiring about how to write a formal letter to your Hod requesting to conduct a workshop if you are an academic structure within a school and has functional rights ?

[thedaffodils]

Hi there,

I am not a teacher. Here's a link about How to Write Formal Letters in this BBS. Hope this helps.

http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/letter-writing.html#layout

[Ever Student]

Please edit my letter:



Dear Mrs Brown

I am writing in response to your advertisement on hiring employees in the last issue of The NEWS.I'd like to ask a few questions if you dont mind.

I would be grateful if you could introduce to me the new qualifications in your company .I'd like to know about a list of main jobs .
I wondered if it possible for someone to have a single office.


I look forward to hearing from you
Yours sincearly
Leila Taghavi

[kapr]

how do i open and close a formal letter?

[Searching for language]

Originally Posted by kapr

how do i open and close a formal letter?

Dear Sir/Madam:
or
To Whom It May Concern:

Yours truly,
Name, position, or Educational forms such as PhD, Dr. etc.
or
Sincerely yours,
Name, position or Educational forms such as PhD, Dr. etc.

Both ways are acceptable.

[ajay_vishvanathan]

use the following format for a formal letter....

From Address

Date

To Address

Subject:

Sir/Madam



BODY OF THE LETTER



Yours Faithfully/ Thanking You
XYZ

[amslam irzam]

i need to write to my son schoold teacher about gettting his grades posted on line on weekly basis how should i put my my thought into writting so i will look nice and not a complain

[awalk]

Is there a preferred format for writing formal request letters?

[Anglika]

Originally Posted by awalk

Is there a preferred format for writing formal request letters?

Have you read any of the preceding messages? - or checked out the link provided?

What sort of formal request is this? If you would prepare a sample letter and post it, someone will comment.

[thod00]

I have a problem with the opening "To whom it may concern". This is the sort of opening you would use in message in a bottle type scenario. You have no idea at all who will find the bottle so the only alternatives would be something like "Dear Bottle Finder".

In almost all cases something is known about the recipient. Even if you dont have a name you can address it to the office or position of the person. eg

The Manager
MakesUPuke Pizza Parlor
Main Street

Dear Sir,
...

If you want to address a department, where you dont know, or care, who will open it, then use "Dear Sirs,"

NeverPaysOut Insurance
NotOurFault House
Main Street

Dear Sirs,
...