www.ijellh.com 574 The Full Block Style: The Most Appropriate Format of Letter Writing Ramnath Singh Rathore Asst. Professor (English) MIT College, Ujjain Dhananjay Gogate Sr. Lecturer (English) Shri Vaishnav Polytechnic College Indore India Abstract: The present paper deals with the different styles of letter composition, that is, indented style, Block Style, Semi-Block Style, Full Block Style, and Hanging-Indented Style. It also discusses merits and demerits of each of them. It highlights the good qualities of the Full Block Style and advocates for its use in the corporate world. Key Words: Style, indentation, open punctuation, closed punctuation, mixed punctuation, layout, indented, full block, semi-block, hanging-indented. I. INTRODUCTION: Generally there are two types of communication; verbal and non-verbal. They play significant role to make communication effective and successful. Written communication is one of the types of verbal communication, which has various media of communication and letter writing is one of them. The success of any organizations also depends on its correspondence. As M. Ashraf Rizvi aptly says, “In fact, a letter is an important channel of communication used to send information outside an organization.”1 There are various styles of writing a good business letter namely Indented Style, Full Block Style, Semi-Block Style and Hanging-Indented style. Writing style means the manner in which a writer chooses to compose a letter for the recipient. The present paper highlights on all the pros and cons of all the styles of letter writing and also stresses on why the Full Block Style is the most appropriate for using in the corporate houses and in many organizations.