I recently had an opportunity to make direct use of the information that I have gained in this course in the preparation of a memo for another class. We were given a fictitious situation based on the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in which we were the owners of a racing team that had been experiencing engine difficulties and had to decide wether or not to enter into the next race.

The most surprising thing for me in this memo was how easily it came to be. All the elements of memo writing appear to have been thoroughly engrained in me, presumably due to the fact that we have written what seems to be an infinite amount of memos.

It will be interesting to see if another instructor at the same institution holds the same views on how a memo should be constructed and what content it should have.