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Wildblue Posted 13 years ago
Letter Writing
Polite enough
Hi. Could you please check the following text? Is it polite enough? And do you see any grammatical mistakes? Thank you for your help.
Dear Professor Smith,
I had the opportunity to study your book on electrochemistry and found it very informative and thorough. However, there are a number of typos throughout the book which are somehow distracting. For example, in Preface: "X immersed in a aggressive" should be "in an aggressive" or on page two, we see "the metal oxidation is shown on the left-hand side of the electrode" which, according to Figure 1.1, should be changed to "on the right-hand side of the electrode". I believe the removal of these typos will increase the quality of this great book. I'm working on a list which hopefully might come in handy."
Dear Professor Smith,
I had the opportunity to study your book on electrochemistry and found it very informative and thorough. However, there are a number of typos throughout the book which are somehow distracting. For example, in Preface: "X immersed in a aggressive" should be "in an aggressive" or on page two, we see "the metal oxidation is shown on the left-hand side of the electrode" which, according to Figure 1.1, should be changed to "on the right-hand side of the electrode". I believe the removal of these typos will increase the quality of this great book. I'm working on a list which hopefully might come in handy."
Top answer
Wildblue Is it polite enough? By its nature, it is not polite to confront the author with a list of simple typographical errors. Send your list to the publisher.
- Wildblue Is it polite enough?
- By its nature, it is not polite to confront the author with a list of simple typographical errors.
- Send your list to the publisher.
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Wildblue Is it polite enough?By its nature, it is not polite to confront the author with a list of simple typographical errors. Send your list to the publisher.
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Thank you for the advice. I will not send it to the author. Apart from the receiver of the text, are there any grammatical mistakes or inappropriate use of words? Thank you again.
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