atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

Is there such a thing as an Australian Standard for corro?

I'd be surprised if there is - but if there is, would love the details.
If not, happy to give you, or help you develop, non-AS ammo (off list), Christine, 

ros
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Ros Byrne
WORDS THAT WORK
Training & Coaching in Workplace Communication
http://www.canberra.edu.au/pmp/program/courses/words-work




On 24/10/2008, at 6:19 PM, Christine Kent wrote:
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
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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
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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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