How to end a letter? - (Mar/20/2008 )

Submitting a paper you have to write a cover letter....what do you write to end the letter? I am thinking of some kind of polite and concluding sentence. In German we have lots of phrases for this, but if you are translating these phrases to English they sound bombastic or overblown...and others sound too colloquial...

Usually I stick to "I am looking forward to hearing from you soon", but maybe you have some alternative suggestions?

g

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Thank you for the consideration.

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"I am looking forward to the reviewers decision." (saw it in a letter I had as draft, didn't used it myself, but it was published )
"If you have further/additional questions you can contact me...."

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but you will have to use a "sicerly yours" or something similar before you sign the letter?

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I always use
"Yours sincerely" after the last sentence and before the sig (I guess it is similar to "Mit freundlichen Grüßen")

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Yes, I think it is similar! So you would have less problems with German letters than I do with English ones

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As I'm a German yes

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shame on you!

But I always thought Germans are stubborn and have no sense of humor (at least the ones who come to Austria and want to go skiing but are stuck on the motorways )...but read some of your posts, maybe I will have to revise my opinion about you Germans

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Have a look on my enormous Gartenzwerg in my front garden .
Yes, and Austrians are extremely traditional, live in wooden cabins on mountain pastures with some cows...When bioforum minorities look down on the other and exchange stereotypes .

PS I only travel to the mountains in summer to collect insects.

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Was this a sterotype? Could've sworn it was carved in gold!!! gebirgsziege..now you have a hypothesis to test for yourself...

regards,

casandra

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