The Style of Writing

A certain technical school wants a temporary teacher to teach post-secondary Five students English and Communication Studies. The school has put an advertisement in the South China Morning Post on 1st September, 1993. There are quite a number of application letters. You will see three of them now.

First of all, read through letters A, B and C and decide on the nationalities of the writers. Just to let you know, the names of people and places have been changed and you should only judge by the style of writing. I am not saying that people of a certain nationality write in a fixed style. I am just trying to give you more exposure, more variety.
Enjoy your reading then.

To see the letters, please the click icons below.

You may want to find out how the nationalities can be reflected in the style of writing. Let's take the above three letters as examples and compare them paragraph by paragraph.

To see each comparison, please click the icons below.

Comparison of 1st paragraph of Letters A, B, C

Comparison of 2nd paragraph of Letters A & B, and 2nd & 3rd paragraphs of Letter C

Comparison of last paragraph of Letters A & B, and last 3 paragraphs of Letter C

the next section - REVISING THE STYLE