Basic Purposes of Business Writing

1. Basic Purposes of Business Writing English Three, SY 2007-2008 Sources: Lesikar, R.V., Pettit, J.D. Jr., & Flatley, M.E. (2000). Lesikar's basic business communication, 8th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill Locker, K.O. & Kaczmarek, S.K. (2001). Business communicatio: Building critical skills. N.Y.: McGraw-Hill. Prepared by: Dianne Siriban, College Faculty, DLSC

2. Three Basic Purposes of Business Writing • To INFORM • To REQUEST or PERSUADE • To BUILD GOODWILL * Most organizational writing often have two or all of these purposes at the same time.

3. Differences between writing for school and writing documents for organizations:

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10. Five criteria for good business and administrative writing: • It is clear. • It is complete. • It is correct. • It saves the reader time. • It builds goodwill. These five criteria depend on the interactions among the writer, the audience, the purposes of the message, and the situation or context. No single set of words will work in all possible situations.