English (Paper 1) Formal Letter, Formal Speeches and Expository Writing Compilation

Title English (Paper 1) Formal Letter, Formal Speeches and Expository Writing Compilation Author Lim Wang Sheng, School of Information Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic [CCA: NYP Mentoring Club] Date 18/4/2018 Table of Contents Page Number Topics Covered 2 Letter Writing – Writing letter of request and complaint 7 Speech Writing – Achievement Speeches and Event Speeches 15 Expository – Argumentative Essays 19 Expository – Discursive Essays In any formal speech, formal writing, and expository, your writing has to follow these guidelines as mentioned below • Get straight to the point (You don’t want busy people to spend time decoding what you are writing or the message you are trying to express.) • Formal language use (Some words cannot be used in the formal setting) • Be clear at what you are trying to express (By not being ambiguous) This compilation is free for students to share and modify for their own needs under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). I compiled speech writings together with the essays and letter writing notes.

Situational Writing (Formal Letter Writing) I chose to write a guide as I did have difficulties at the start remembering the formatting of the letter and anticipate similar problems to appear when future students study this topic. As I mentioned, in general, when given a formal writing question, you have to get straight to the point, in addition, a situational writing on formal document will require the following skills: • Showing your confidence [Especially when writing a proposal] • You need to appear very sincere [Especially when producing an apology letter or a proposal to a client] • Minimize metaphor usage [The reader is most likely busy and don’t want to spend time correlating metaphors with meanings.] • Write politely [Even if you are writing a complaint, you need to be polite] (The above tips can be ported to report writing and speech scripts, albeit, with a slightly different formatting. Just change accordingly.) Disclaimer: Any Events, Organization and People mentioned below are fictitious. Question 1: You recently came across a poster of the following content summary: ABC Polytechnic is planning to host Secondary School Students Coding Competition Event and you as the head of your Secondary School Programming Club is writing to your school principal on the following matters: • Administrative (Excuse on that day for school for the competition event) • Benefits (Why the school principal should let you go for the event) You may add any points relevant to the writing of the essay. In any proposal letter writing, I prefer the following order: • Self-Introduction • Exact Purpose of Letter • Description of Event • Convincing the reader • Concluding Statement Rearrange the order of points as you deemed fit but that is what I prefer.

Miss Chen Ming Xuan  (Name of Recipient) School Principal  (Position of the