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To hear Republican South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint tell it, socialism lurks in America, spreading cavities through the mouth of American Freedom — I’ve learned from the Tea Party movement that Freedom is always a proper noun — with its illusory rights like health care or education.
A Modest Proposal
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In my opinion one of the most unprofessional things that one can do is to send a poorly formatted letter.
Doing such a thing is an instant credibility destroyer. Even if your letter is perfectly worded and devoid of grammatical and spelling errors; sending it out in a sloppy unprofessional format will always reflect badly on the sender.
That being said; are you aware that there is NO single international standard for formatting the three main groups of letters used in day-to-day life: business letters, business memos, and personal letters?
It turns out that, among the most sought-after info that visitors are looking for when they come to my Writing Help Central website is how-to properly format letters. In addition, I often receive e-mails from people asking such questions as:
As I stated above, there is NO ONE international standard for formatting letters.
If you spend some time searching through textbooks at your library or bookstore, or checking out some online info sources you will come across many different ideas about what a properly formatted letter should look like; some reasonable and some questionable. In fact, you will find so many different formatting suggestions that you won’t know where to start.
I encountered this same multiple-choice conundrum a few years ago when I was conducting the research for my two general letter-writing toolkits: Instant Letter Writing Kit and Instant Business Letter Kit. So, what I did to sort things out was to review all of the reasonable letter layouts that I could find, and then I assessed them based on two main criteria: 1) most appealing overall appearance and, 2) most effective visual presentation impact.
What I arrived at in the end were three (3) distinct layout formats as follows:
1. Business letters – Full-block format
2. Business Memos – Full-block memo format
3. Personal letters – Semi-block (modified) format
Accordingly, these are the three standard formats that I have adopted and use in all of my Writing Help Toolkits. You can see a fully-formatted real-life example of each of these letter layouts at the following link: http://www.writinghelp-central.com/letter-formats.html
Shaun Fawcett is Webmaster of two of the most visited writing-help websites on the Net. He is the author of numerous “how-to” books on everyday practical writing help. He also writes about how to create and publish books and ebooks. His main “writing tools” site is: http://writinghelptools.com
Cover Letter
In today’s competitive environment outsourcing has become crucial to cut on the costs for an organization and to focus on its core business activities. Outsourcing has helped the offshore companies to save roughly about 60 to 70 percent and to utilize the same in other core business functions. Now-a-days outsourcing all major work to India, China and Philippines has seen a steady growth. These nations have talented pool of English literate people who can deliver the work with good quality in timely manner that to at very economical rates. Indirectly outsourcing has helped to create more jobs in these countries thereby contributing to its economic growth. Especially in India, where young people mostly in their 20′s and 30′s are available in good percentages to fill up the workforce to complete offshore projects with good accuracy and in timely fashion.
Outsourcing all major work such as data entry, forms processing, check processing, survey processing, insurance claims processing, MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) data entry work, web research and data compilation, transcription, legal work outsourcing, other KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) and high end work have become very common. India has become one of the major destinations for outsourcing all type of work along with China and The Philippines. It cannot be ruled out that India has English has its second language and enormous number of population know English language very well who can communicate, read and write in English.
Presently in India there are many outsourcing companies who offer all type of services such as web designing, search engine optimization, data entry, medical transcription, software development, insurance claims processing, medical billing, medical coding, legal work outsourcing etc. Outsourcing work has played vital role in generating employment and thereby contributing to economic growth of the country.
Offshore companies can outsource all their laborious work to India, China, and The Philippines and can focus on their main business activities. This helps to reduce their costs efficiently and also saves their man hours considerably. They can efficiently utilize their resources elsewhere and can derive more profits for their organizations and thereby fulfill their corporate goals.
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International efforts are being done to ensure that the Kimberly Process will be effective. However the Process alone will not be able to completely eradicate the trade in blood diamonds. Participating nations have to strictly follow guidelines and show more transparency, companies would have to help by divulging names of people involved in the trade, a thing they won’t do, jewelry stores need to have policies regarding blood diamonds, and consumers have to do their part.
As a consumer you might feel that you cannot directly make an impact towards the resolution of this issue especially since diamonds are rare commodities and thus is something you can just stop buying. After all, the average person buys a diamond only once or twice in his lifetime. However, you can still make a difference.
Buying a Conflict Free Diamond
When considering to buy a diamond, remember that it is a once in a lifetime purchase and you want to make sure that you buy a conflict free diamond. Thanks to the Kimberly Process, the diamond industry promised to write invoices of all diamond purchases that contain guarantees that the sold diamonds are conflict-free diamonds. Whereas before it was impossible to tell whether a diamond was a conflict-free, the warranties now identify conflict-free diamonds from questionable diamonds. However, in a 2004 survey conducted by Amnesty international and Global Witness they found that only 11% of retail stores in the United States had a policy regarding blood diamonds. 67% of the retail stores would not comment and divulge whether they had any policy or not. The rest did not have any. This means that they still do not issue warranties and therefore sell diamonds of questionable origins. The first thing you can do is to not buy diamonds or diamond jewelry with no guarantees. Check their invoices. They should keep a record of invoices and see if there are any guarantees in the invoices. The retailer, if abiding by the Kimberly Process, will not buy from suppliers who do not provide guarantees. Ask about the stores policy on conflict diamonds as well. Buy only from those that have a clear firm policy. Even if you have no more intention of buying from a store that you perceive might not have any policy at all, ask the question still. Asking questions and making them produce copies of guarantees will not only ensure that you buy conflict-free diamonds but will also send them the message that consumers are becoming aware of the problem and would not buy from irresponsible stores. This would put pressure on the diamond industry to act more responsibly since they will see that non compliance with the Kimberly Process will affect their profit.
Conflict Free Diamonds – Take Action
Other things you can do is to sign up with Global Witness on their Diamond Pledge and be faithful to the pledge itself. Help raise consumer awareness about conflict diamonds by sharing your knowledge to your family and friends and anybody else
who would listen. Do it by word of mouth, give away educational leaflets, hold a tabling event or start a letter campaign. Doing your part will help a lot. As of June 2003, 26% of consumers have become aware of the issue as compared to the 7% in 2000. As more and more consumers become aware of the problem more will decide to buy conflict-free diamonds and thus help in stopping the illicit trade.
About the Author
Shlomit is a writer for Compucall-usa.com.To learn more about Blood Diamonds please visit:
http://www.stopblooddiamonds.org/
Art Career Advice : Contracted Artist Invoices
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How To Write A Sales Letter or Email That Gets Read
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restricted early action at stanford university…?
so i wanted to do restricted early action at stanford university. but i was wondering, how much does doing that increase my chances of acceptance?
a little about me:
i go to a waldorf education system school that doesn’t use letter grades, instead, we get written evaluations. comments such as, “excellent work” etc. last year, i only did two extracurricular activities last year: model un, and communittee service. i’m active in my youth group, and i’m also a classically trained violinist, spending my summers at music camps. no sat score to send to colleges. (sat score really doesn’t come out well) act score: 28 (but taking it again aiming for more than 30)
i kno i’m not amazing. but i’m wondering. does applying for early act really give me an edge, and a chance at getting in? stanford is my dream school.
Jack that ACT score up to the higher 30′s, Stanford is VERY hard to get into and I can’t give a good guess because I can’t see your gpa.
Good luck!
NOYNOY AQUINO RIVALS DESPERATE! ‘SHOCKING AND AWFUL’ TACTICS – BOGUS PSYCH REPORT WILL NOT WORK!
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You are a first-time writer and you have just finished writing your book, your first book, your dream, your ticket to success, fame, and glory. You feel terrific and on top of the world, don’t you? I know. I have been there, being a writer myself.
But hang on. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that your job is done. It’s only half done, or maybe even less than that. What remains to be done is the critical part of finding a publisher for your book. To do that, you have to write a book proposal, and this article will help you with just that. So here are the steps of writing a book proposal.
If the publisher wants you to send a hard copy to them, take a printout of the letter, sample chapters, and make sure to include a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) in the proposal.
If the publisher accepts the book proposal by email, then just ZIP all the contents in a ZIP file and send it to the appropriate address.
That’s it! You are done! Follow these guidelines and your chances of getting a positive response will increase dramatically.
Of course, it has to be said that, ultimately, the response is likely to be positive if your book (as judged by your sample chapters) is good. Most first-time writers get rejected because the quality of their English is just not up to the mark. Being a publisher I have had to read such bad language that it is unbelievable that the writers actually believed that their proposal would be accepted. Even if the books are published, they have very little chance of selling the first edition. Sometimes, if the language is acceptable, the subject matter or the plot is un-cooked or half-cooked. So make sure that you do your absolute best with your book before you submit it to a publisher. Get help from professional editors if you have the means. Even if you find their charges a bit too high for your taste, good editors are worth their weight in gold. They will point out mistakes that you wouldn’t and couldn’t have imagined.
I have written enough. I will now sign off wishing you all the very best for your book proposal and the book.
About the Author
Prashant Karhade is the founder of APK Publishers.
Academic Writing Tips : How to Write a Proposal
How to Write an RFP Rejection Letter?
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Request For Proposal (RFP) – Training Video – Austin Videographer
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Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, Congress Did Not Print a Bible for the Use of Schools
David Barton, the pseudo-historian from Texas who’s probably more responsible than any other individual for spreading the erroneous belief that America was founded as a Christian nation, has now teamed up with Glenn Beck.
Kids Ocean Movie – The Letter A Sample Chapter “Ocean Life from AZ” – Ocean Products for Kids
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