atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

Imagine the volume of my groan as I have to deal with these people.  So much
for "the clever country".

 

From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Silcock
Sent: Saturday, 25 October 2008 1:46 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

 

I agree with Caz, except I would have thought it was more like three decades
as a minimum. The rules you describe were the kind of thing I was taught
growing up in the fifties and sixties. I had to unlearn them long ago and
don't recall when I last received a business letter set out that way.

Howard

2008/10/24 Caz. H <cazhart@xxxxxxxxx>

Wow - you have a worthy battle there Christine.

It's been more than a decade since business used that old standard.  I'm
even talking the public sector!  

All left aligned, none of those superfluous comas.  Gives me the shivers to
think there are teachers who believe otherwise.

On template letterhead business paper, the logo will most often be
positioned in the top right hand corner (a visual prompt, also doesn't get
hidden by a clip or a staple), possibly including, but not always, the
company contact details.  It's becoming more common for company contact
details to be placed in a footer, with the information flowing horizontally.
Apart from the aesthetics of page layout, this better accommodates the
addition of URLs, email address, postal and street address. 

CH






On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Christine Kent
<christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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

 





-- 
Carolyn Hart

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