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Formal Writing Skills

Read each task carefully. Choose the strongest formal option where asked, and use precise, respectful language in your own writing. The situations and examples below are fictional.

A. Audience and purpose

A local council is asking for feedback on a proposed cycleway near a secondary school.

1.Which opening is most suitable for a formal email to a council transport officer whose name you know is Ms Patel?

Hey Ruben!
Dear Ms Patel,
Hiya,
To whom it may concern!!!

2.Select the two strongest features of formal writing in a public consultation email.

3.Choose the linking word that best completes this sentence: “The cycleway could make the school gate safer. ________, some nearby residents are concerned about losing street parking.”

Furthermore
However
Therefore
For example

B. Edit for a formal audience

The following draft is from a student who wants the council to consider the cycleway carefully.

4.Rewrite this message as one or two formal sentences. Keep its meaning: “Hey, the road by school gets super hectic at 3. Can u do something about it?”

5.Correct the capitalisation and punctuation in this draft sentence: “furthermore the cycleway may encourage more students to travel actively however its route should be planned carefully”

6.Rewrite the sentence using a more formal alternative to “a lot of cars”: “A lot of cars queue outside the school at pick-up time.”

7.Identify the more persuasive formal claim and explain why it is stronger. A. “The cycleway will definitely fix every traffic problem.” B. “A protected cycleway may reduce conflict between cyclists and vehicles near the school.”

C. Shape a clear response

Plan a short formal email to the council supporting a safer route to school while acknowledging that residents may have concerns.

8.Put these parts of a formal email in a sensible order by writing 1–4 beside each: closing and name; greeting; subject line; message paragraphs.

9.Write a formal closing paragraph of two or three sentences for the email. It should request a next step, acknowledge the council’s consideration, and end politely.

10.In two or three sentences, explain why formal writing is useful when making a proposal to an organisation such as a council.

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