This 1882 essay by Mark Twain is an example of Horatian satire, a lighthearted take meant to critique the rules and crack some jokes. “Go to bed early, get up early—this is wise,” Twain states in the essay. To do so, he instructs youth to get up “with the lark,” a bird kn...
The most common formats for formal letter writing are block style and American Mathematical Society, or AMS, style. In the example below, we use block style, specificallyfullblock style, because it’s the most popular.Block style is characterized by all elements being aligned on the left margin...