Business Writing In Academic And Workplace Contexts

Business writing in academic and workplace contexts shairn hollis turner and desireé scholtz department of office management and technology faculty of business cape peninsula university of technology po box 652 cape town 8000 south africa corresponding author e mail.

Business writing in academic and workplace contexts. While business writing is typically based on factual information it often focuses on giving opinions in the form of recommendations. Southern african linguistics and applied language studies. Recommendations are made to better align classroom and work practices for the mutual benefit of student learning and workplaces.

The focus of this paper is a research project conducted in three higher education sites and at a variety of work sites to compare the writing produced in business writing programmes with the writing practised in workplaces. Data from the different contexts were then compared. Academic writing requires extensive sourcing and compliance with specific style and formatting requirements.

The aim of this study was. Business writing in academic and workplace contexts. Business writing in academic and workplace contexts shairn hollis turner 1 and desireé scholtz 2 1 department of office management and technology faculty of business.

28 technical communication pp. Long sentences can be acceptable in academic writing but tend to be cumbersome in business writing. The writing you produce in academic settings can best be described as writing to learn and writing to demonstrate what you have learned you write to explore topics to learn new things to argue a case and to demonstrate to your instructors that you have learned and can think about and apply what you have learned.