Techniques/tips on effective letter writing Letter of Application

Before you get a single internship at a Fort law firm, someone there reads a one-page letter from you — and decides within moments whether to open your bio-data at all. The same page decides whether a ward officer fixes the broken water line in your building or files your complaint away. Mumbai University asks you to write exactly these letters, paper after paper, because a lawyer's working life runs on them. So the real question is simple: what makes a busy stranger read your letter, believe it, and act on it?

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An effective formal letter follows a fixed layout — sender's address, date, recipient, subject, salutation, body, complimentary close, signature, enclosure — and puts its purpose in the first sentence, its proof in the middle, and a clear request at the end; a letter of application adds a short, specific case for why you suit the post and a bio-data or resume attached to it.

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