Guidelines for Business Report Writing

This brochure provides guidelines for writing an effective business report. It covers the planning process, incorporating ideas, readability, and essential elements. The report should be structured with an executive summary, introduction, body/discussions, and conclusion. Formatting, references, graphs, and charts are also important aspects of business reports. The writer should focus on the purpose of the report, the readers, and the messages to be conveyed. The report should be readable and disseminate the exact information to the audience.

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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