Transactional Letters

What is a transactional letter?

 A transactional letter is a way of writing or is written in order to getting something done, to finish some action that you have been planning, is most used to ask things that for responds. It is written with some specific instructions in order to follow or kip the correct structure or the formal language that is necessary is this explicit kind of letter.

What are the 6 steps when writing a transactional letter?.

  

1.  Get off to a good start:

Before you start you have to have cleared 3 words... To WHO are you going to write, WHY you are going to write, and WHAT are you going to write, in order to kip the coherence and the sense of the letter. 

2. Planning

Keeping in mind that in a transactional letter you should use 120 to 150 words, it has to be punctual, so you can use three advices to get it clear

• what is the question that you are going to make
• keep the original letter
• Have short notes to remember the punctual subject.

3.  Deciding on Paragraphs

You have to decide what are you going to write in each paragraph, try diveded in just four-

• A short openning paragraph
• The first main paragraph 
• The second main paragraph  
• The ending

4. Using your own words  

Is this step you can show your ability to write, the structure, vocabulary, etc., but this is most important if you make it with your own words.

5. Chossing the right style

In the Transactional letters is necessary use a formal way, is not a letter that you are going to write to a friend, be careful with the expressions and the Utterance of the words.

6. Check and correct

Like always, you have to read and read again what you had written, in order to search or find some mistakes that sometimes you just  let it go. 

What is the most important information that you should take into account at the time of writing a transactional letter? 

The transactional letter is something that you write in a very polite way, and is this part when you can show your ability to write using the correct vocabulary, the correct structure for the sentence and the most significant thing is in your own words, keeping in mind that the destiny of the letter is in order to getting something that you have planning done, and finish it.