Working with official documents

Official documents are written in the official style: application, explanatory note, autobiography, certificate, power of attorney, act, minutes, invitation, character reference, report, announcement and others. The language demands objectivity, exactness, brevity and set formulas. Therefore it has no diminutive or affectionate forms, dialect words, figurative expressions, rhetorical questions or emotion. An application has the parts: to whom (recipient), from whom (sender), document name (ARIZA), text, appendix, date and signature. A document must carry a date and a signature, and its data must be written exactly.