Discuss the you-viewpoint to build good will.
The you-viewpoint produces
goodwill and influences people favorably:
Writing from the you-viewpoint is
another technique for building goodwill in written message. It is a technique
for persuasion and for influencing people favorably. It is fundamental in the
practice of business etiquette. In a broad sense, you-viewpoint writing
emphasizes the reader’s interests and concerns. It emphasizes you and your and
de-emphasizes we and our. But it is more than a matter of just using
second-person pronouns.
The you-view point emphasizes the
reader’s interests. It is an attitude of mind involving more than the use of
you and yours:
The point is that the
you-viewpoint is an attitude of mind. It is the attitude that places the reader
in the center of things. Sometimes it just involves being friendly and treating
people the way they like to be treated. Sometimes it involves skillfully
handling people with carefully chosen words to make a desired impression. It
involves all these things and more.
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