Technically-based Business Communications

Commonly, assignments of business communications focus students' attention on four types of learning tasks:

    • analyzing and organizing information for ones' self,

    • communicating information to an audience in writing, including visual aids,

    • generating an entire document in a prescribed format, and

    • perhaps, designing and delivering a related oral presentation.

The list below includes a number of different types of business communications that are common for engineers to use as they practice engineering.

Ideas for Technically-based Business Communications

    • Memo

    • Executive Summary

    • Cover Letter for a Report or Proposal

    • Briefing Paper

    • Business Plan (for a Project or Start-up Company)

    • Consultant's Report to a Client

    • Expert Witness's Report

    • Test Plan (or Design of Experiment)

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