{"id":1581,"date":"2019-06-20T10:54:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2019-06-20T10:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:56:32","slug":"letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">One of the Directed Writing compositions is letter.\u00a0 There are two types of letters: 1) Informal and formal letter.\u00a0 The informal letter is kind of straight-forward things because the format is simpler as compared to formal letter.\u00a0 I find that for SPM Paper 1, it is quite common for the letter question to be formal letter as compared to informal.\u00a0 I guess, this is one of the ways to ensure that the candidate would know how to write proper formal letter for future use such as employment and others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example of formal letter question<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You are a qualified preschool teacher and are looking for a change of school to teach in.\u00a0 You come across this advertisement in a local newspaper.\u00a0 Write a <strong>cover letter<\/strong> for your application in not less than 250 words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/poster-letter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1582\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/poster-letter-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/poster-letter-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/poster-letter-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/poster-letter.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reference to advertisement<\/li>\n<li>Reference to accomplishment and present position<\/li>\n<li>Independent and team player<\/li>\n<li>Principles of work \u2013 priority child in the class \u2013 course attended<\/li>\n<li>Confidence \u2013 pleasant personality<\/li>\n<li>Call for an interview<\/li>\n<li>Closing words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When writing the letter, you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lay out your letter correctly (addresses, date, salutation, title, closing]<\/li>\n<li>Use<strong> all<\/strong> the notes given<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*********************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Read the question carefully.<\/li>\n<li>You are writing the letter to apply for something such as applying for a certain position. It should be short and brief.\u00a0 Do not forget to include important details.<\/li>\n<li>Identify the situation and format.<\/li>\n<li>Use the <strong>5Ws + 1H<\/strong> approach to elaborate the points given. For example, elaborate points given:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(1) <strong>How<\/strong> did you know about the vacancy?<\/p>\n<p>(2)<strong>Why<\/strong> are you applying?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>(3) <strong>What<\/strong> is your accomplishment?<\/p>\n<p>(4)<strong>What<\/strong> is your present position?<\/p>\n<p>(5) <strong>What<\/strong> is your attitude to work?<\/p>\n<p>(6) <strong>How <\/strong>do you regard the child in the class?<\/p>\n<p>(7 ) <strong>What<\/strong> is your principle of work as a teacher? E.g. No discrimination among students regardless of their background<\/p>\n<p>(8) <strong>What<\/strong> is your personality?<\/p>\n<p>(9) <strong>When<\/strong> can you attend an interview?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/Formal-letter.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> to see the example of a well-written formal letter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Directed Writing compositions is letter.\u00a0 There are two types of letters: 1) Informal and formal letter.\u00a0 The informal letter is kind of straight-forward things because the format is simpler as compared to formal letter.\u00a0 I find that for SPM Paper 1, it is quite common for the letter question to be formal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/letter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}