Links and Online Examples - Letters, Memos and E-Mails

Hey guys, 
This week the topic was about letters, memos and e-mails.  As we wrap up this topic, hopefully it has made things more clear about how to write each one, how all three have very similarities and differences, how each one has their own unique headings and closings, etc.   Yet, I know for some of us, including me, needed to have an example to look at, just so we understood what exactly we were doing.  With this, I would love giving examples for you all, even for my own use. Along with the examples shown, I will list some main points that we should remember, or what I thought was helpful trying to write these. 
Letters: 

• Letters have two basic types: Traditional and Block
• Block is left aligned and is usually the most common, but formal between the two. 
• Traditional is when there is indentations, it is more friendly than the Block format.
• Letters should be written out like you can be able to make copies and allow for enclosures. 
• There are multiple types of letters,like letters of request, letter of complaint or responding to a complaint, bad news letters and fund-raising letters. 
• What I find interesting about these is letters are not the most popular in this generation, since we are now more-less used to e-mails, but it is something you should know how to write and understand, since there are some things that do come in the mail now (and if we do get something in the mail nowadays, I feel special if it is, unless it is not appealing.) 

Letter Example

https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Letter 
https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Business-Letter
http://sarikusumaningrum.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-write-bad-news-business-letter.html

Memos:

• Memos are something I personally have never worked with, since working at McDonald's doesn't have memos or anything.
• Memos are internal forms of communication or how employees/members communicate any other time.  
• They are the most flexible way of communication in my opinion, comparative to letters and E-Mails.
• In other cases though, they are very formal and more lengthy and in fine details.  They are the most difficult to ignore, since they have what's called "paper trail."
• They have a lot of purposes though, the main ones I have heard are procedures, statuses and recommendations.  Other than that, they can be used for documentations and directive.
• One thing to remember about memos is that there has to be a specific way of formatting them, the example below has a very good look at formatting. 

Memo Example

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https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Memo
https://kopywritingkourse.com/how-to-write-a-memo/
https://www.instructionalsolutions.com/blog/memo-format


E-Mail

• "You've got mail!" was one thing that most of us heard when E-Mailing first was around, or at least for me it was. 
• E-Mailing has the convenience and speed, which is very beneficial to most people in the business field, or any field for that matter. 
• This one seems to me like it is the less complex of the three, it can be sent to a lot of other people, internal of the company or external, yet it is the one where security falls completely.  
• It is not very secure when it comes to security, because anyone can read it, if it is on the company computer, it is owned by that company, the privacy overall isn't the greatest.  
• These are read a lot differently that if it is printed out on paper, but it is the quickest, convenient and the cheaper option in my personal opinion.  
• Just like memos, they have a lot of reasons to be writing an E-Mail.  Directive,  documentation, procedures and recommendations seem to be the most people in a business work place. 
• One thing I did learn while doing the E-Mail is that you have to be simple and brief.  Personally, if I see an E-Mail on my phone while laying around the apartment and I have to SCROLL, that is truthfully too long for an E-Mail.  Be professional, but not lengthy. 
• Also, I never understood what the CC and BCC lines were for, so that is something new I learned.  
• Here is a really good example I did find when I was working on the E-Mails. It does explain at the bottom what each number represents too, just in case you do not know what that is. 

E-Mail Example.

https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Formal-Email

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/how-to-write-and-send-professional-email-messages-2061892
https://www.instructionalsolutions.com/blog/business-email


In conclusion to this, I really hope this helps you guys out if you are ever in a pickle, trying to figure out how to E-Mail Professor McClelland about how you missed class on whatever day because you were "sick," or a letter to send to your parents in California, and I mean the state of California, not mini California.  Even if it is a memo to your boss saying, "This sucks I quit," (Which please don't do that, that's just wrong.) you can always look at these examples and main points to make things look correct. 

Good Luck!