Revising for Style, Tone & Clarity

Write a memo to your boss saying that you will be out of town two days next week and three days the following week for one of the following reasons: 

(a) to inspect some land your firm is thinking of buying

(b) to look at some new office space for a branch your firm is thinking of opening in a city 500 miles away.

Read page 59 to page 68 before writing. Please be sure to retain the memo format in your revision.

Please use these link before you start to write a business formal memo:

Upwrite Press, “The Key Forms of Business Writing: Basic Memo,”

Purdue Owl, “Memos” (follow the links in the opening paragraph)

University of Maryland Global Campus, Effective Writing Center, “How to Write the Perfect Memo”

Ashford University, “Writing a Business Memo”

Colorado State University, WAC Clearinghouse, “Business Memos”

Please use these link before you start to write a business formal memo:

Upwrite Press, “The Key Forms of Business Writing: Basic Memo,”

Purdue Owl, “Memos” (follow the links in the opening paragraph)

University of Maryland Global Campus, Effective Writing Center, “How to Write the Perfect Memo”

Ashford University, “Writing a Business Memo”

Colorado State University, WAC Clearinghouse, “Business Memos”