Brochure Guidelines on Planning and Writing Effective Business Reports

This document provides guidelines for writing effective business reports, starting with the planning phase. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the report's purpose, identifying the target audience, and structuring the content accordingly. Key points include incorporating essential elements such as an executive summary, introduction, body, and conclusion, while avoiding redundant information. Readability is crucial, ensuring the report disseminates information clearly to the reader. The document also highlights the use of formatting, graphs, charts, and proper referencing to enhance the report's presentation and credibility. This resource offers a concise guide for students and professionals seeking to improve their business report writing skills, and Desklib offers additional materials to support learning.

Brochure
Guidelines for
Business Report writing

Planning Reports
 Report writing starts with
planning the report
 Before drafting the report
planning is required to be
done
 Writers need to focus on
the purpose of the report.
 Who are the readers of
the report
 The messages that the
report will be providing
 The writer needs to focus
on the structure of the
report

In-cooperating Ideas
 Once the planning has been
done
 The structure for the report
is made
 Writers are required to note
down the key points that are
to be presented in the report
 The writer should focus on
the points that are to be
discussed avoiding
redundant things (Bombardó
Solés, Aguilar, and
Barahona Fuentes 2014).

Readibility
 The writer is required
to know their audience
 The report should be
made in such a way
that the reader gets
the full idea about the
topic
 It should be able to
disseminate the exact
information (Hyland
2015)

Essential and non-essential
elements
 Writer is required to focus
on essential and non-
essential elements.
 A report must contain
executive summary,
introduction,
body/discussions and
conclusion.
 Formatting and
references are also an
important aspects of
business reports
 Graphs and charts makes
the report presentable.

References
Bombardó Solés, C., Aguilar, M. and
Barahona Fuentes, C., (2014). Technical
writing [Texto impreso]: a guide for
effective communication.
Hyland, K., (2015). Teaching and
researching writing. Routledge.

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