Office Practice WASSCE (SC), 2016

Question 4

(a) Explain the office correspondence.

 

(b) Out six parts each of the following correspondence;

(i) business letter;

(ii) memorandum;

(iii) report.

Observation

Most candidates performed well in part(4a) of the question. The performance in 4b was not very good.

 

Some responses expected for 4b are:

(b) (i) Business letter:

- reference;

- date; - attention line;

- inside address/addressee address;

- salutation;

- subject heading/title;

- body of the letter.

 

(ii) Memorandum:

- from;

- to;

- date;

- reference;

- subject heading/title;

- body;

- name.

 

(iii) Report

- date;

- name and address of the recipient;

- subject matter/heading;

- terms of reference;

- procedure;

- findings;

- conclusions.