RWS

• The two types of Correspondence are Personal and Professional.
• Personal letters express the views, ideas, and feelings of the writer in a personal manner.
• Personal letters are private letters written to friends, relatives,

  colleagues, acquaintances, etc.
• The objectives of Personal Letters are to establish personal contacts and to maintain personal relationships.
• The subject matter of the Personal Letter is requesting, apologizing, congratulating, inquiring, sympathizing, informing, etc.
• Format of Personal Letter:

  I. Sender’s Address with date

  II. Salutation

  III. Main Body

  IV. Complimentary Close

  V. Signature (Name)
• Official/Business Letters we write letters to customers, suppliers, organizations, offices, employees, etc.
• The purpose of Business Letters are:

  • Selling a product
  • Making a complaint
  • Thanking an official
  • Welcome remarks
  • Seeking information
  • Applying for a job
• Structure of a Business Letters:

  I. Sender’s Address and Date

  II. Name, designation, and address of recipient

  III. Salutation

  IV. Subject Line

  V. Body

  VI. Complimentary Close

  VII. Name w/ Signature
• There are 5 types of Business Letters which are the Cover, Business Inquiry, Quotation, Complaint, Apology Letter.
• Business Inquiry Letter is written to sellers (quality and quantity of the product), price, delivery mode, payment.
• After receiving the letter of inquiry from a prospective buyer, the sellers supply the relevant information by writing a letter is called quotation letter.
• Complaint Letter is written by a buyer to the seller giving the order to purchase the goods.
• Apology Letter is written in the circumstances when we make mistakes and fail to render our duties properly.
• Cover Letter is a letter of introduction that highlights your key accomplishments to fit for a job opening. It also adds focus to your resume.
• Key points of Cover Letters:

  • It introduces you to the reader.
  • Responds to the requirements of the job.
  • Attracts the reader’s interest and refers them to your resume.
• Hypertext is a non-linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using "links".
• Hypertext also allows the reader to create their own meaning out of the material given to them and learn better associatively.
• The World Wide Web is a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the internet.
• It was Ted Nelson who coined the term hypertext in 1963.
• Intertextuality is one method of text development that enables the author to make another text based on another text.
• Intertextuality defined as a process of text development that merges two or more processes such as imitation and creation in doing a text.
• Intertextuality has rooted from the work of a Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Meanwhile, the term itself was first used by Bulgarian-French philosopher and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva.
• There are 5 Elements of Intertextuality which are Retelling, Parody, Pastiche, Quotation, Allusion.
• Retelling is the restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative.
• Quotation is the method of directly lifting the exact statements or set of words from a text another author has made.
• Allusion is a method by a writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of quotation.
• Parody is a work that's created by imitating an existing original work in order to make fun of or comment on an aspect of the original.
• The term parody (pronounced par–uh-dee) is derived from the Greek phrase parodia which referred to a type of poem which imitated the style of epic poems but with mockery and light comedy.
• Pastiche is a text developed in a way that it copies the styles or other properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a parody.
• Evaluative Statements is a statement that states one's sound judgement about something through writing which is supported by reasons and evidences.
• Evaluative Statements also represents the strengths and weaknesses of something based on a set of criteria which needs to be factual, substantial, and unbiased.
• Assertions serve as a primary way for the readers to consider and

  possibly agree with the claims presented by the writer in an

  expository writing.
• Assertion is declarative sentences that give one's beliefs about

  something else as if it is true though it may not be.
• Assertion is expressed as an argument. Usually, these

  assertions contain languages that express evaluation such as

  useful, significant, important, insightful, detailed, up-to-date,

  comprehensive, practical, impressive, etc.
• There are 4 Types of Assertion which are the Fact, Convention, Preference, and Opinion.
• Fact is a statement that can be proven objectively by direct experiences, testimonies of witnesses, verified observations, or the results of research.
• Convention is a way in which something is done similar to traditions and norms. Its truthfulness can be verified only by reference to historical precedents, laws, rules, usage, and customs.
• Conventions may sound factual due to their being derived from customs, but because they are socially accepted ways of doing things, they cannot be verified objectively by measurements.
• Opinion is a statement based on facts but is difficult to objectively verify because of the uncertainty of producing satisfactory proofs of soundness.