Mohammad
Please answer to this question. Thank you in advance. Dear friends is this phrase suitable in a formal letter? isn't such request rude? Dear professor ... I'm so grateful if your keep this manuscript to yourself until it can be published. In fact my next goal is to find and join a research group and I need this manuscript published for that. Best wishes
Apr 11, 2016 8:11 AM
Answers · 4
This would be correct and formal: I would be grateful if you did not share this manuscript with / forward this manuscript to anyone else until it can be published. Your option was not rude. "keep something to yourself" is informal, but not rude.
April 11, 2016
I would say: Dear professor, I would be grateful if this manuscript is kept confidential until it can be published. In fact my next goal is to find and join a research group and I need this manuscript published for that. Best wishes
April 11, 2016
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