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Write to the Point
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Write to the Point

by Salvatore J. Iacone
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 17m
English
Career Press
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11Memo, Letter, and Report Guidelines

“This is what I’d like to put in my letter:‘Beautiful Marquise, your beautiful eyes make medie of love,’ but I’d like to put it in an elegant way.”

—Moliere

Memos

MEMOS CONVEY INFORMATION WITHIN AN organization. The purpose of the message can be to inform, instruct, advise, announce, remind, respond to questions or concerns, offer answers to inquiries and solutions to problems, express appreciation or, report on meetings or status of ongoing projects. Memos can be informal or formal in wording and tone and distributed to all personnel within a company or to a select group. Because memos often address specific topics, they include subject lines. Nowadays in many companies, information previously communicated ...

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