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The results indicate that politeness strategies are inappropriately utilised and the genre components are poorly managed in the letters of applications.
Young aspirants are always endeavouring to secure posts on our leading newspapers, and complain bitterly that their letters of application are ignored by obtuse editors.
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For this very post, she had received fifty letters of application, she said, but she had taken no action upon them.
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So he studied the advertisements in the papers and wrote letters of application.
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