Memos

**Aim: How do we create business letters and memos?**
**Typical Business Tasks**
 * Email with or without a ttachments
 * Memorandums
 * Business Letters
 * Business proposals

__**Block-Style Business Letter**__
 * Writing = Communicating! Communication skills are the #1 skill that employers are looking for today. Can you convey your thoughts in a memo or letter?**
 * 1) **These are the parts o**f a business letter:[| Click here for a labeled block-style business letter]
 * 2) **Create a Business Letter** - Open the **Computer Applications (black & brown with top spiral)** textbook to **page 679**, type the business letter shown. Use the Insert date tool in Word. **Save As: Business Letter 1**

EXTRA CREDIT Letter - only do this if you have completed ALL your work.**
 * 1) **Business Letter 2 - Create a block-style** complaint letter to our borough president. Subject of complaint = the amount of litter on Staten Island streets. (Use the above examples.) Complain about the litter and then offer suggestions on how to improve the situation. Possible solutions: more trash cans, more street cleaners as well as billboards and SI Cable T.V. advertisements encouraging people not to litter and to pick up litter when they see it. Compose the letter yourself and add any additional points or ideas.
 * 2) Your address must consist of the following lines:
 * 3) Your house number and street name, Apt. # (For example: 101 Hamilton Avenue, Apt 2B)
 * 4) City, State zip code (For example: Staten Island, NY 10301)
 * 5) The borough president's name and address is:
 * 6) Borough President James P. Molinaro
 * 7) 10 Richmond Terrace, Room 120
 * 8) Borough Hall, Staten Island, NY 10301