How Does A Blog Post Differ From A Professional Letter

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English: German text “sentence spacing” example – 1/3 em word spacing, single em-quad between sentences. From 1907 journal article. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On the most basic of levels, all writing is the same. You pick up a pen or load up your computer, put some words onto a page and after a given length of time, you have your written document produced.

But in many ways, this is where the similarities between pieces of writing ends and the reality is there can be a huge amount of difference between articles.

Not something a lot of people are aware of, today we want to showcase the difference between a blog post and a professional letter (and in fact most other pieces of writing) and give you an insight into how the former needs to be written to ensure it’s as effective as it can be.

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