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Thursday, May 6th, 2010Politicians are strange creatures, says politician Omar Ahmad. And the best way to engage them on your pet issue is a monthly handwritten letter. Ahmad shows why old-fashioned correspondence is more effective than email, phone or even writing a check — and shares the four simple steps to writing a letter that works.
Letter Writing — A Lost Art
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010Make no mistake, Internet correspondence has dimmed the art of letter writing. The masses use social networks, instant message and e-mail more than snail mail (a term derived only after the advent e-mail). It is one of the primary reasons the U.S. Postal Service is struggling for survival; a recent study commissioned by the Postal [...]
The Art of Letter Writing
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010The art of writing a beautiful letter is not unlike the art of conversation. It takes practice, elegance, humor, wit, and intimacy. The best way to begin is to study. Read some of the most well-noted love letters and letters of import or significance throughout the history of human civilization. Humans have been communicating by [...]
Memos vs. E-Mail and Letters
Friday, January 22nd, 2010How are memos different from email and from letters? It turns out that some situations give memos a rhetorical advantage. Click here to continue…. View the original here.
A Passion for Letters
Thursday, January 21st, 2010I have been passionate about letters and letter writing since my grandmother got me hooked at a very early age. I think letter writing is not only a fabulous (and inexpensive!) hobby, but is also important as a social and historical record of times gone by. Right now, today, you could be making history! View [...]
The Lost Art of Letter Writing
Thursday, January 7th, 2010As I wait for my next class to begin, I take out a pen and paper and start writing a letter. I tell the friend I am writing to about what I am doing and whatever is on my mind. My thoughts roll out onto the paper and will end up in their mailbox in [...]
How Would Einstein Use E-Mail? Letter Writers of Yore Had Same Correspondence Patterns As E-Mail Users Today
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009You’re not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence. A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper — long before electronic mail existed — did so in a pattern similar to the [...]
Hi Gramps, Here's a Printout of My E-Mails
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009At 90, Chandler Murray’s mailbox, not counting bills and solicitations, receives only a handful of seasonal letters from a few old friends. “People just don’t write letters anymore,” says his daughter Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt. So in [...]
Jinny Jordan: Letter Writing Will Not Be My Lost Art
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009I was wading through my basement when I came across an old shoe box with letters spilling out. Some of the letters consisted of notes from my first childhood sweetheart, my best friend’s tearful goodbye when she moved away, love letters from my first real boyfriend, and countless postcards from my jet-setting friend. View the [...]
Business Writing: Don’t Ask Too Many Questions
Friday, July 25th, 2008Yesterday I received an e-mail solicitation that was a good example of a bad technique: asking too many questions. It began with this question: Read the original story here If the above link is broken, view our cached copy instead.
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