Letters were easy to write as a missionary when the only thing I had to worry about was....nothing. I just wrote the name of who the letter was to, and then I would put my name at the end of it. It would be nice if those were the only characteristics to worry about in a professional letter.
I've learned a lot over the last couple months about how to write to professional letter to someone. I've learned that good news should be right at the beginning and easy to spot. Bad news, however, should come later on in a letter as to make it a little more subtle. By doing these things, you allow the right tone to be received by the reader. If a reader sees bad news right up front, he or she is going to have negative feelings throughout the rest of the letter. These characteristics are important to maintain good relationships with those you disclose bad news to. Bad news is a part of life, but it doesn't always have to be a bad experience for those involved.
I know the knowledge I've obtained about how to write effective letters will help me immensely throughout life if I apply the principles I've learned over the last couple of weeks.
Keeping a good relationship with the people we interact with is key, who knows, there might come a situation that we need the help of someone who we used to associate with, if a relationship is severed then there is no hope in a situation like this. In addition to what you said about bad news at the beginning is true and an extra thought on the matter is that putting bad news at the front of your writing could make it so that the reader stops reading all together, in which case all of your time writing is wasted.
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