Business Communicative Writing - Important Guidelines and Examples

Running head: Business Communicative Writing
BUSINESS COMMUNICATIVE WRITING

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Business Communicative Writing
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Planning for writing.........................................................................................................................2
Emails..............................................................................................................................................2
Memos: Good news correspondence...............................................................................................3
Memos: bad news correspondence..................................................................................................3
Business letters: routine and good news correspondence................................................................4
Business letters: bad news correspondence.....................................................................................4
Persuasive letters.............................................................................................................................4
Informal reports...............................................................................................................................5
Formal reports..................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Reference list...................................................................................................................................6

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Business Communicative Writing
Introduction
This study focuses on some of the important guidelines and examples of the commonly
used forms of business communication. This may include business letters, informal letters,
persuasive letters and s on. Furthermore, some advices have also been given here so that
common mistakes while writing business communicative writings can be avoided.
Planning for writing
Before proceeding to write any kind of business writing, it is very important to plan for it.
This planning may include following the purpose of writing, considering the target readers,
keeping the context of the communication in mind and so on (Evans, 2014). Each type of
business writing serves a different purpose and thus, it is very much necessary to plan differently
for each one of them in order to achieve the purpose of writing.
Emails
Business emails need to follow some basic guidelines in order to restrain from negatively
impacting the target readers be it the employees or the customers. In order to maintain the
positive impact, the business emails need to be as direct and concise as possible. It is also
needed to be kept in mind that emails are for providing little but important information
(AlAfnan, 2014). Thus, if there is a long message to be conveyed then a different medium of
business communication need to be chosen other than emails. Apart from that, business emails
should be formal and professional in tone. Moreover, basic requirements such as proofreading
the content and syntax also need to be focused on before sending the emails to the chosen
recipients.
Example:
To: (recipient name) <recipient’s email id>
CC: