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Writing Business English Reports

Writing Business English Reports

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English

Professional Development

Practice Problem

Hard

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Ferdi Farmadi

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10 Slides • 5 Questions

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Writing Business English Reports

A business communication skill

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What is a business communication?

Business communication is the sharing of information between people within an enterprise that is performed for the commercial benefit of the organization

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What is a business report?

A formal communication written for a specific purpose that includes a description of procedures followed for collection and analysis of data, their significance, the conclusions drawn from them and the recommendations, if required. (Sharma & Mohan)

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Characteristic of a business reports

  • Specific Issue Business reports are written on a specific subject: They are written to fullfil a certain need.

  • Pre-Specified Audience: it has a specified audience.

  • Specific Structure or Layout: In preparing reports, certain structures/layouts/formats are followed.

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Characteristic of a business reports

  • Written on Past Events: In most of the cases, reports are written on past events. Reports are written in past forms/tense.

  • Neutral in Nature: strict impartiality must be maintained. Biased reports may lead to disastrous decisions

  • Factual Information: based on factual information. The data collected on specific events is factual, not factious.

  • Joint Effort: Sometimes business reports are an outcome of joint efforts of a group of people

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Multiple Choice

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Business communication is:

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Sharing information within a company

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Sharing of information between employees

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Sharing of knowledge between colleagues

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Sharing of facts within company groups

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Multiple Select

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The purposes of business communication are:

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To share information

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For benefit of the company

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To tell the facts

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For the company to know

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All of the answers

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Multiple Choice

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Business Report is:

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Written communication for a specific purpose

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Written communication for a specific people

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Written communication for a specific event

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Written communication for a specific conclusion

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Written communication for a specific task

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Multiple Choice

Which one of these is not a characteristic of a business report:

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For a specific purpose

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For a specific audience

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With a specific layout

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For a specific task

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Multiple Choice

Another characteristics of Business Report are:

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Neutral

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In the past

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Factional

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All of the answers

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Writing Task

Now you know all about business reports, write an e-mail reporting on the events on the next slides.

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Vocabulary

  • Misconduct: unacceptable or improper behavior, especially by an employee or professional person.

  • Disgruntled: angry or dissatisfied.

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Office incident events (page 1):

  • Management finds misconduct of an employee named Mark

  • Management confronts Mark about it, Mark denies the misconduct

  • Disgruntled, Mark reports the incident to the BOD

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Office incident events (Page 2):

  • The BOD, Management, and Mark sits down together in the meeting

  • After investigation, the misconduct is not on Mark's part

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Good Luck!

The deadline is at the end of the week (May 23rd, 2021)

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A business communication skill

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