Business Reports
Overview of business report writing for Business Studies
Because it so closely mirrors the real commercial world, business actually has a language of its own. The language of business is known either as the report format or as report style writing. In this tutorial the two terms are used interchangeably.
In most cases your Business Studies teachers will prefer that you use report style writing for your assignments instead of the more familiar "essay style" of writing that you have become so accustomed to over the past ten years.
For example: The sentence below contains the same words but there is a slight difference in presentation. The first sentence is written in report style writing and the second sentence is written in standard essay style.
(Sentence one , written in report style writing)
The good news is that report style writing is:
• easy to learn
• easy to organise and
• likely to help earn you higher marks in Business Studies.
(Sentence two, written in essay style writing)
The good news is that report style writing is easy to learn, easy to organise and likely to earn you higher marks in Business Studies.
See the difference? There is of course more to report format writing than this. Please read on.
Note: Other subjects may also use a form of report style writing. Check with your teachers as you may run into slight variations from subject to subject.
Why use report style writing?
In the business world decision making is critical. Business people need access to information that is:
• concise and clearly presented
• easy and quick to interpret and
• useful to them in accurately assessing situations and making decisions.
Business managers don’t want, nor do they have time, to wade through paragraphs or pages of non essential information. In a growing number of businesses decision makers refuse to deal with...
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