商业写作教学资料：Memo_Samples_and_Exercises_for_Memo_Writing2015.docVIP

Memo Samples and Writing Practice 1. Examine the following memo samples: Memo 1: Urgent meeting Memo 2: Health Safety Inspectors’ Visit Mr Wallace, a flower, fruit and vegetable grower, of Creasey’s Farm, Cold Aston, Gloucestershire, GL99 9OK. He sells wholesale to shops as well as retail to individual customers. He is expecting very important visitors to his premises, so he circulates this message to all Department Heads. Memo 3: Control of Bedix Calculators by Prendall Industries 2. Memo writing practice 2.1 Writing effective subject lines Exercise 1: Write down the subject line for the memo on the basis of given data with a particular instruction in view. Situation 1: Just after your colleague, Jimmy Smith, has left the office of Newton Furniture to go home one evening, Mrs Sue Flower tells you that she wants you to spend the next two days at another branch of the company where two members of staff are off sick. Mrs flower tells you to leave a memo for Jimmy Smith, asking him to do any important jobs you had planned for the next day. These include: Making two telephone calls to customers telling them their orders will arrive three days later than promised, because of a machinery breakdown. Interviewing at 2pm a Mr J King, who has a complaint about a bedroom suite he bought; Among several other tasks. Subject line: ________________________ Situation 2: You work for Dunn’s Wholesale Confectionery of 200-220 Mars Road, London EC6 MB5. Your Office Manager is Miss Jane Treadgold. You arrive at work one morning and find the following note from her on your desk. Carry out her instructions. Write a memo under my name to all company’s representatives, informing them that the new supply of company-headed writing paper, note pads, and ball pens embossed with the company’s name and address, which are to be given to customers, has arrived and will available to the reps from next Tuesday from the office. I need to know in writing by next Monday the quantities of these it