BUS 237 Lecture Notes - Calendar Date

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Zorana Svedic

Document Summary

Memo format: memo (short for memorandum) is a business-oriented style that is best suited for interoffice or intercolleague correspondence. More informal in tone and organization than a letter, memos are used for internal issues in the organization. Sample bellow gives examples of possible usage and content: keep your memos to one page. In the provided sample on the next page, replace the red text in brackets [ ] with the component indicated. More informal in appearance and tone than a letter, a memo is set up in a special format. Headings, lists, tables or graphs are often used to make the information more readable. All memos consist of two sections: the heading and the body. Heading: the heading indicates who is writing to whom, when, and why. Introduction - states the general problem or main idea. There are four types of memos you might have to write, each with its own organizational format: information, problem-solving, persuasion, and internal memo proposal.