atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

Just dug out my old AGPS manual - think that's the one you are referring to.

 

It's not the one the teachers are using - it has a few suggestions but is
not prescriptive.  These teachers are insisting on the old standards we had
as kids - our address to the top right, date under that, their address under
that, left aligned, mandatory Yours faithfully, and lots of commas - all
seems pretty anal retentive to me, but I need to find the actual document
that specifies this if I am going to argue with it.

 

Christine

 

From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Lewington
Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2008 11:08 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

 

Style Manual, published by Wiley. It is the Australian version. It has what
you need in it.

 

Regards;

Warren

 

From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Kent
Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2008 09:29
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Australian Standards for Letters

 

Guys

 

Question 1 - Does anyone know where I can find Australian Standards for the
layout and presentation of letters (correspondence).

 

We are writing books on how to use Word 2007 but our TAFE teachers are
throwing wobblies because we are using the Microsoft templates which do not
concur with Australian standards.  We may be forced to produce our own
boilerplate template which does concur with those standards.

 

Question 2 - Does anyone know of ANY business environment or context in
which these standards are still applied?

 

 

Regards

Christine

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