Many times we need to write letters to people in our contact. And we are very cautious when we are writing to somebody in our business contact and not the informal one. There are certain very good basic things and habits that we should be used to. Like -Writing correct spellings and checking for spellings at least twice -writing grammatically correct sentences -prefer small sentences so that the reader doesn't find difficult to understand it. -As per I think we should take at least 1 minute to write one sentence in e-mail - Best practice is to write it first, read it, then again delete the complete sentence and then again write it Some links to get details on this topic: 1. http://www.newbie.org/email_basics/ 2. http://www.helium.com/items/755084-the-basics-of-writing-an-email?page=2 3. http://www.captureplanning.com/!hc_sales_letters.cfm 4. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:P9Vni3-zqyMJ:media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/47/07645252/0764525247.pdf+&a