Begin with the salutation.\u00a0 Replace the placeholder \u201cXxxxx\u201d in the salutation with the name of your main\/technical contact in whatever way you are referring to him\/her\u00a0\u2014 for example:<\/p>\n
In other words, if you are not on a first-name basis and, thus, refer to him\/her with Mr. or Ms. or Dr., etc. being a title of respect, then just use their last name, not first and last.\u00a0 Note that professionally, Ms. is often used over Mrs. or Miss and eliminates the risk of inaccurately identifying her as married or unmarried, respectively.\u00a0 Of course, Dr. is the appropriate professional title for someone, male or female, with a doctorate degree (Ph.D., D.Ed., M.D., D.O, D.D.S, etc.) and there are other more specific ones like Prof., Dean, Judge, Senator, \u2026 that may be appropriate.<\/p>\n
Your customer cover letter should briefly describe what documents are accompanying it, following the opening phrase \u201cEnclosed please find\u201d that is included in the template. \u00a0Note that this document (the FRD) is not a \u201ctechnical memo,\u201d rather it is a \u201cfinal report.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Include in a logical place\/ordering in this short paragraph (1) the title of your project for the reader\u2019s reference and (2) the most important achievement (e.g., a design that met all the requirements, a design that lowers cost, a design that\u2026).<\/p>\n The cover letter should continue in a second paragraph (replacing \u201cSTART SECOND PARAGRAPH HERE\u201d) thanking your customer for the opportunity to work on the project with them, any other things you appreciate from their involvement, and any well wishes for them moving forward.<\/p>\n The entire letter (including the cc directives on the bottom) must fit on one page<\/strong> without change of formatting (single-line spacing)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salutation Begin with the salutation.\u00a0 Replace the placeholder \u201cXxxxx\u201d in the salutation with the name of your main\/technical contact in whatever way you are referring to him\/her\u00a0\u2014 for example: Dear Mr. Smith (the formal default) \u2013\u00a0OR\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dear Richard (if now on a first-name basis) \u2013\u00a0OR\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dear Rich (if he also goes by a shared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n \u00a9 2017, William J. Endres<\/td>\n Updated March 21, 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"