Advanced Business Writing
you will want to review the following reading materials.
- From Business Communication for Success, Chapter 9, section 9.4, "Report"
- "How to write a business report," from Victoria University of Wellington. Click here to access this document.
- Murdoch University offers an excellent resource, "Guide to Business Report Writing." Click here to access it
- Colorado State University offers a fine website on advice for writing business reports. Click here to access it.
Monash University has a website thate features a sample case study report along with comments to the student on the report. Click here to access the site.
From the eReserves in our class: Forsyth, P.K. (2013), Making numbers clear, in How to write reports and proposals, third edition.
In addition, please watch the video, Writing a Formal Business Report. The video is linked to at the top of the Content list for this week.
After perusing some of these materials and observing the video, please answer the following questions:
1. What might be your topic for the research-based report? Keep in mind that you can adjust your topic as you progress with the assignment.
2. Who might be your audience? A couple of sentences will be sufficient in answering this question.
3. What would be the purpose of your report? A few sentences will be sufficient in answering this question.