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插图：1. Completeness （完整）Business letters should avoid incompleteness. A business communication should include all the necessary information. It is essential to check the message carefully before it is sent out to see that all the matters are discussed, and all the questions are answered.2. Concreteness（具体）Concreteness means making the message specific, definite and vivid. Business letters should avoid being too general. In general letters, everything seems to be mentioned but actually few are fully expounded. You should use specific facts and figures, vivid and image-building words.3. Clearness/Clarity （清楚）Make sure that your letter is so clear that it cannot be misunderstood. A point that is ambiguous in a letter will cause trouble to both sides, and further exchange of letters for explanation will become inevitable, thus time will be lost. The writers must try to express themselves clearly. To achieve this, they should keep in mind the purpose of their letter and use appropriate words in correct sentence structure to fully convey their meaning. When you are sure about what you want to say, say it in plain and simple words. Short, familiar, conversational and straight-forward English is what is needed for business letters.4. Conciseness （简洁，简明）Conciseness is often considered to be the most important writing principle. It means saying things in the fewest possible words. To achieve this, try to avoid wordiness or redundancy. Clearness and conciseness often go hand-in-hand, and the elimination of wordy business jargon can help to make a letter clearer and more concise at the same time. A concise letter is not necessarily a short one. Sometimes, perhaps a letter dealing with a multiplicity of matters cannot avoid being long. Generally speaking, you will gain in clearness and conciseness by writing short sentences rather than long ones.A letter can be

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