Many scholarships provide funding for only one academic year, so it may be in students' best interests to write a thoughtful thank-you letter, aside from being the courteous thing to do, experts say.

Etiquette expert Diane Gottsman explains how to write a proper thank-you note with grace and ease, even if you're not a writer. Even as a writer, however, I struggle with this type of writing ...

If you’re hoping to get a jump start on your 2017 job search, be sure to check out the new book, Modernize Your Job Search Letters, by bestselling career authors Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark.

Advice Miss Manners: Do I really have to write thank-you letters for a thank-you gift? Published: Apr. 29, 2025, 5:42 a.m.

Resist the urge to fall back on a fill-in-the-blanks outline. If you write your thank-you letters like you’re playing a game of Mad Libs, it’ll make them seem stiff and generic.

The article about the loss of writing thank-you notes discusses another lost art. During COVID, I wrote letters to my grandchildren several times a week, in print form, not in cursive.

My children began to resist writing thank-you notes as they got older. Now I make sure they show gratitude before enjoying their gifts.

My grandmother always wrote thank-you letters to everyone in her life, and it inspired me. As a college professor, I told my students to write a thank-you note to someone in their lives.

The Bond Gifts writing robot. A robot that can mimic human handwriting has been put to work creating notes you can send from your iPhone.