Business writing (деловое письмо). Палагина С.С. - 82 стр.

machine offer a wide range of facilities, including automatic paper feeders, deferred
transmission ( taxes are sent during cheap- rate periods), automatic redialling if the
receiver's machine is engaged, and pre-programmed keys for instant dialling.
   A document can be relayed from one source to hundreds of other receivers, for
example, if the head office of a chain store wants to circulate a memo or report to its
branches.

      5.2.1 Faxes and letters are very similar. But information about the
receiver appears at the top of the fax message so there is often no greeting. Also
people often say "Regards" or "Kind regards" at the end.
    On the top of the title sheet one can see:

     ZERO SHEET or
     LEAD SHEET or
     LEADER SHEET or
     HEADER SHEET or
     HEADING SHEET or
     COVER SHEET

     At the end of the message one can see:
     THE END
     A zero sheet has the indication of the number of sheets, for example:
     Pages to follow:           7 + cover sheet or
                         or 7 including cover sheet
                         or 7 cover sheet excluded (included)
                         or Pages:       Page 1 of 7 pages
                         or    1 to 7

     At the end of zero sheet there can be a footnote, for example:
     “If you don’t receive all pages of this message, please contact Mr. X
     Phone: ……
     Fax: ……”
     or “In case of any troubles feel free to contact ……”
     or “ For more information please contact ……”

     There are no full stops after titles. Commas are used only before “which”and
never before “that”.
     Ordinal numerals, fractions and round brackets are written in the following way:
 st nd, rd
1 2 ,3 ; 3.25; (This is what he said.) Variants 1-st, 2-nd, 3-rd and 3,25 and (This is
what he said). are avoided.

      5.2.2 Sample of good fax.




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