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A Magazine Wants to Include Contributions from Its Readers for An Article - GT Letter Writing Band 9

Updated: Aug 29

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.


A magazine wants to include contributions from its readers for an article called The book that influenced me most.


Write a letter to the editor of the magazine about the book that influenced you most. In your letter,

  • describe what this book was about

  • explain how this book influenced you

  • say whether this book would be likely to influence other people

You should write at least 150 words.


You do NOT need to write any addresses.


Begin your letter as follows:


Dear Sir or Madam,


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Dear Sir or Madam,


I am writing with reference to your request from readers’ contributions for the article called “The book that influenced me most”. I would like to grasp this opportunity to express my opinion on the book called “The most important thing”.


As a regular reader of your magazine, the book that I highly recommend is about the 20 most uncommon senses and mindsets in investing written by Howard Marks, the founder of Oak Management Fund. In fact, many Wall Street traders take it as an investing bible, and not to mention that Warren Buffer read it twice.


At first, I read this book to pass my leisure time. However, after skimming through the preface of the book, I am riveted to the assorted insights and warnings which the author shares with the investors. To be honest, the book not only reshapes my investing strategy during market fluctuations but also builds up my critical thinking in valuing and recognizing the stock market risks.


Therefore, I am a firm believer that reading this book would be helpful for beginners or professionals to establish and readjust their perspectives in investing through author’s disclosure without reservation about his lifetime knowledge as a deep market participator.


I would highly appreciate if you can review my contribution. Should you have any further information, please feel free to contact me.


Yours sincerely,


Sara Ali


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Dear Sir or Madam,


I am writing this letter with regard to the article called ‘The book that influenced me most’.


There is a book that impacts on me significantly, called ‘Kim Jiyoung, born in 1982’. This book is talking about a life of a woman in Korea. Kim Jiyoung is one of the common names for a girl, which means that Kim Jiyoung on this book is representing all the women in Korea back in 1980’s. In this era, women used to be unfairly treated by their families, specially grandmothers just because they were women.


This book influenced me as well as lots of women in Korea and Japan, because this is a very first book of talking about gender discrimination with familiar stories which quite commonly happened in Korea society. Actually, this book had lots of issues when it came out to the world by lots of Korean men who were against feminism. Even so, this book was a best seller for long time and made into a movie.


Kim Jiyoung, born in 1982” has already impacted on a lot of people all across Asia, now it is time to let other continents’ people know about this book. I believe that most of countries used to have this kind of gender discrimination long time ago, and who knows, may be still going on. I hope people get positive influence by reading this book.


I look forward to hearing from you.


Kind regards,


Sara Hasan


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