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This document describes the basic format for the business and technical memo. All memos should be brief, to the point, and accurate. ... "Memo writing is technical writing with its sleeves rolled up."

The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the summer 2002 and—determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported ...

The key to effective internal memos is that they communicate much in a small amount of space. A cardinal rule of great memo writing is this: All important information must appear on the first page.

You may be familiar with the memo templates that many word processing packages offer--you will notice that there are several variations on the basic format, but the required elements are the same.

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Summary: This handout will help you solve your memo-writing problems by discussing what a memo is, describing the parts of memos, and providing examples and explanations that will make your...

USATODAY.com Latest News ... Below is the full text of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's memo on the war on terror:

A TIME cover story on an explosive letter to the head of the FBI, Minneapolis agent Coleen Rowley acuses the agency of obstructing information that may have prevented Sept. ... May 21, 2002 ... It is obvious,