Abstract

The author suggests that the purpose of minutes is to inform those at the meeting and others, to provide information on past proceedings, and to progress ongoing items, and outlines the form the record should take to meet these requirements. Minutes must be in the style of a written communication and not of the spoken communication of the meeting; must be a record of facts and not a factual record; they must also be short, expressing concisely only that information which the readership requires.