Okay, everybody, we are now going to go through our second live example.
And for this second live example, we're going to be looking at a semi-formal letter because we're writing
a letter to a manager, it looks like.
So as I said in the previous lecture, I am going to be writing this live.
So I'm not going to be able to necessarily be talking all the time.
I know some people say, well, why aren't you talking more?
Stop and explain, please.
I stopped and explained in section two of this lecture series.
Right?
This is about me writing something live so you can witness in C progression step by step by step.
When I'm able to talk and stop and talk and explain, I will.
But I'm trying to move through it and finish in a timely fashion and give you the ability to really
see the parts happening live, because that's what you need to be able to do on paper.
So let's get started.
It says here that you have seen an advertisement of a valuable piece of equipment.
Write a letter to your manager and ask to buy that product.
To be used in your company.
Include the following in your letter what the equipment is, how it can be useful for the company,
and describe the procedure for buying the equipment.
So the first step that we have to do, as always, is to do an outline.
You've seen from all the examples that I've done so far, every example that I've done so far, you've
seen it happen the exact same way.
All right?
It doesn't matter what type of letter it is, it's the same strategy because the same I shouldn't say
the same strategy because language changes, whether it's formal or informal.
It's the same structure and organization, let's put it that way.
All right.
So let's go ahead and get started.
And we're going to get started with doing an outline.
In my outline, I need to address these three parts, what the equipment is, how it can be useful,
and describe the procedure for buying.
All right.
So we have our outline.
Part one,
we're going to buy an all inclusive
recording booth.
How about that?
One thing that I recommend you do.
Write about what you know.
Right.
If you're a software engineer, buy software equipment.
If you are a nurse, buy some nursing equipment.
If you're a dentist, buy dental equipment.
So if you're a social worker, buy some pens and pencils.
I guess I don't I don't know.
But buy, buy, buy equipment that, you know, write about what you know.
Part two.
Oh, shoot.
I shouldn't be up there.
How can it be useful?
Record lessons.
Online courses.
They remember a lot of the ideas I'm thinking about.
I may not actually use all those ideas, but I'm just trying to get things out of my head so I can focus
on how I want to write.
If these online order form.
Provide dimensions that's spelled wrong, although in a really in outline it doesn't really matter.
But choose a color palette that's built, right?
Yeah.
All right, so I've done an outline.
I think doing an outline is really, really helpful.
Okay.
And we're going to write this to our manager.
Dear Mr. Campbell.
And let me go ahead and.
Come on.
Is that it?
All right.
So, dear Mr. Campbell.
So since it's a manager, since it's the manager, it's okay to use their last name?
You wouldn't say, dear sir, madam right is semi-formal.
So it would be dear Mr. Campbell, dear Mrs. Williams, dear dear, whatever you want to put it as.
And we're going to start out with our introduction.
Equipment we should consider.
Right there.
We have a very, very good compound, complex sentence.
We have a very good sentence there that is going to really impress the greater right, really impressed
the grader a lot.
Och.
As the manager of our department you previously requested, we bring to your attention any great ideas
to improve our capabilities.
And I have come across some equipment we should consider.
Next, I have to talk about what the equipment is.
Wouldn't be.
You discussed?
Probably we discussed.
Right now.
If you notice, I said this equipment fits the bill.
That's more colloquial language.
But it's okay here.
I don't want to do it too much, but it's okay here because this is a semi-formal letter.
If this were a formal, really formal letter, I wouldn't put something like fits the bill.
You know, I want to say it is.
I don't want to say it's.
Right.
In addition.
Also built in attachments for
microphone, sound buffer
and document holder.
All right.
So there I've kind of describe the equipment, what the equipment is.
All right.
And then we have to move on to the next part about how it can be useful for the company.
The usefulness for our company is undeniable.
He now gets the controlling idea of what this next paragraph is going to be about and going to discuss.
We will be able to.
Properly.
Equally important.
Will enable us to enter the online course market since we can do all of our recordings in-house.
To the required standard of production.
What do you think so far?
Do you think I'm convincing my manager?
Right.
This is the semi-formal letter, right?
This should be to our.
All right.
And then we have to write about the next part, which is describe the procedure.
Describe the procedure for buying the equipment.
Well, again, you're seeing a short topic sentence here to kind of introduce where we're moving on
to.
All right.
You have to take somebodys hand and you have to walk them through where you're going.
You have to take them in the direction that you want them to go.
We have to fill out the basic online order form.
Now, the good thing is that I already have my outline, so I don't have to think about what I need
to do.
Please provide the booth dimensions needed.
And the color palette for the outside.
All right, there's our next letter, and then we're missing.
What?
Guys, we just need our conclusion.
I really hope we can.
Move quickly.
Again, this is a semi-formal.
If this were if this were a formal letter, I would probably say we should write, we should sew semi-formal.
I hope you're getting the idea of the tone.
Available.
In the next quarter.
Right.
And there we have it.
We're going to give him a best regards.
From Good Ole.
With best regards from Kevin Smith.
Right.
And we're going to give Kevin actually a title.
It's not necessary, I guess.
Oh,
I guess that's what happens.
That's what happens when you're writing live.
You make mistakes.
All right.
So there we have our letter, everybody.
All right.
And our word count.
Let's just do it.
All of it to 13.
Right.
We have a solid letter in.
And what really helped me to be able to write it so quickly and write write it so quickly is that I
had an outline in front of me and then outline enable me to just write and keep going and know what
the idea is and focus on how I want to say it.
So I hope you enjoy that.
And we have one more live writing for a formal letter.
Formal letter that I will kind of go live through and show you how to do.
So I hope this is working out well for you.
I want you to really study hard, work hard, do your best, work on your application of theory.
I'll talk to you soon in the next lecture.