How to write a Business Letter

Wiki is helpful:
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Business-Letter

other sample letters:
http://www.englishclub.com/business-english/correspondence-samples.htm

http://www.angelo.edu/services/career/documents/Sample%20Business%20Letters.pdf

and you can find plenty here:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=Hu5UELIyBggC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=business+letters+examples&source=bl&ots=vZgHcmk8_C&sig=u2DNimRW21kseSgQRCN2EDHa99Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JnnBUpOvDLHsygOy0oGoBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=business%20letters%20examples&f=false

simplified, visual structure:
http://www.cengage.com/resource_uploads/downloads/0538728841_177015.pdf



I would like to remind you please to send me some of your work, or to post it. I have made the blog private, nobody except our own class can read it.

Best wishes,
Anny

Xmas Homework

You will have to read a book. Please summarize chapter by chapter [briefly], add your own critical note and a little information about the Author. You can choose your book from the previous list of sites that offer free books, otherwise just select one from the following link:

http://www.epubbooks.com/books

Preparing for the Xmas holidays

The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
https://archive.org/stream/happyprinceother02wild#page/n0/mode/2up

or
https://archive.org/stream/happyprinceotherwild#page/n7/mode/2up

and for more books:
Gutenberg.org
http://www.gutenberg.org

Wikibooks by Subject
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Books_by_subject

Internet Archive
https://archive.org

Internet Archive: Open Library
https://openlibrary.org

Internet Archive: Texts [The Internet Archive's Digital Books Collections]
https://archive.org/details/texts

E-books at the University of Adelaide
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au



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Dictionaries

The best online dictionary: English_German / German_English is the following:
http://dict.leo.org/#/search=&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on


and for those who refer to the Italian language, WordReference.com is quite reliable:
http://www.wordreference.com/enit/

The Merriam-Webster is my choice for a monolingual dictionary:
http://www.merriam-webster.com

Exercises:

Business Letter: intro

Tone in Business Writing___

Formatting:

Accentuating the Positives___

npr: Examining U.S., European and Japan's Latest Economic Growth

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/18/245913194/lessons-learned-examining-u-s-european-and-japans-latest-economic-growth

Report cards are in for the world's biggest developed economies. The U.S. grew at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter, Japan at 1.9 percent and the eurozone at a measly 0.4 percent. Steve Inkseep talks to David Wessel, economics editor at The Wall Street Journal, about economic growth in the last quarter.

Steve Inskeep interviews David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal. 

The Economist

Economic history: What can we learn from the Depression?

What is Economics?

Recession? Depression? What's the Difference?

ISDA : International Swaps and Derivatives Association

CDO & CDS : Credit Derivative Obligation
Credit Derivative Swap
Credit Derivative

hedge fund nouna limited partnership of investors that uses high risk methods, such as investing with borrowed money, in hopes of realizing large capital gains.