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1.
As an active duty member of the United States Air Force,
email is by far the most common way of communicating
information throughout the organization. Additionally, the
use of Microsoft Teams has become more and more
common as it is very efficient and has video chat
capabilities. With that being said, I do not think the use of
memos will "die" in the Air Force. We use memorandums
for records, or MFRs, with very strict formatting for
several business matters. MFRs can be used for
disciplinary actions, official guidance, changes in policies,
appointment letters, and much more. Also, these
documents are dated at the top and signed by the author
at the bottom. Although email and other web-based forms
of communication are much more common in the Air
Force, I believe that MFRs will not disappear an
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Oregon State University resource on business
writing style, review carefully the table showing
differences between academic and business writing
styles. Choose a difference that you find surprising
(or that you think might be challenging to
remember and practice as you are learning
business writing) and discuss why you find this
difference particularly surprising and/or
challenging.
As this is the first business writing class that I have taken, all
my other writing has typically been in the academic style. For
this reason, the main differences I may struggle with are the
tone and voice of my papers. It has become almost ingrained
in my mind to write in a formal and passive way. I think that it
may be a fun challenge to be more active and engaged in my
writing.
2.
The Lumen Learning resource discusses how email
and other web-based forms of communication and
reduced memo use in workplaces. Consider your
own workplace (or a similar setting such as an
organization/club/team, etc.) you belong to or are
involved with and discuss whether your own
experience in the communication setting you have
chosen seems to prove that Lumen's claim about
the "death of memos" seems valid or seems -
premature, let's say.
I would say that my workplace, or the U.S. Air Force in general,
is a bit more dated than your typical workplace. While yes, we
do have a significant amount of email traffic about everything
happening and we must keep them in a memo format, we do
use actual memos almost daily. Our leadership does have
people though that format the memos to the standard they
want and disseminate the template for us to then add the
content for whatever we need it for. To answer the main
question, memos could very well be dying, but I feel that I am
in a unique position to say that to me it seems premature.
ytime soon.
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