8600-304 Writing for Business

Unit Overview

Leaders within the organisation must be able to prepare different writings required to achieve the business standards and goals of the organisation. 8600-304 Writing for Business is a unit within the ILM level 3 module that focuses on the ability to effectively prepare business writings that are aimed at achieving specific purposes. As a leader, one must be able to prepare informative yet convincing articles for different stakeholders.

This involves being able to communicate to others within the organisations, such as presenting backing information to practices that have been selected to oversee activities within the areas of responsibility, effective reporting to senior authority, or preparing business writings that are to be presented to the shareholders and potential investors. These are different forms of writing that have different purposes, and the leader must be in a position to effectively develop each form of writing that effectively contributes to the accomplishment of the intended purpose.

As such, 8600-304 Writing for Businesses is a unit that builds the understanding of these different forms of business writing and the purpose that they are intended to achieve hence ensuring that the practising or potential first-line managers and junior managers pursuing the unit are able to identify the principles of completing each business writing. The main purpose of the unit is enabling the leader to build skills and knowledge of effective business writing. Which is required for practising or potential first-line managers. The units completed in 4 hours of guided learning and has a credit value of 1 in the overall ILM Level 3 module.

Suitability of the Unit

All stakeholders, in one way or another, are required to complete a form of writing that passes information to different stakeholders. Business writing may include reports, policies, financial statements or findings from research. As such, the unit is applicable to different stakeholders within the organisation. 8600-304 writing for Businesses designed to specifically serve the learning needs of first-line managers, supervisors and junior managers within the organisations. It helps to build the knowledge of these individuals in the process of effectively communicating in the business context.

However, the knowledge and skills provided within the unit are versatile and can be used in different processes and practices within the organisation. Middle managers and executive managers, for example, can use these skills to develop effective research and findings that are backed by statistic and visual material. It can also help to build the ability to develop informative presentations on different aspects within the organisation, making it suitable for the executive and middle managers. Employees can also pursue the unit to build their personal and professional skills and ability to effectively contrite in the process of making reports within the organisation.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this unit, the learner should be able to:

• Produce various pieces of business writing for a defined purpose

• Ensure the peace of business provided meets the standards of the organisation’s business writing conventions.

• Effectively use tools of wring and communication such as appropriate tone, language and level of formality to achieve the set standards of specific forms of business writing

• Use statistics as an individual representation of data within the business writing to back 

• The content that is being presented

• Show understanding of the structure of business writing that includes a proper introduction, body, conclusion, recommendation, references and appendix session to provide additional information or supporting materials

Learning Areas

8600-304 Writing for Business is a narrow unit that aims at building the understanding of the context of writing and the purpose that the leaders must achieve in the writing process. This unit focuses on improving the awareness and understanding of other values of writing, avoiding errors in reporting, and documenting various aspects within the organisation. It helps them to understand the structure and layout of the business writing in relation to document and standardised approaches.

In this unit, the learner is taken through the different forms and purposes of business writing that they will encounter in the process of leadership. This includes the physical and electronic writing that may be included within the process of learning teams and different areas of operation within the organisation. This unit further includes the significance of effective research in completing business writing. Leaders must have information before they can engage in writing. This information is represented within the document to ensure that it is informative and comprehensive. The concepts of a diagrammatic representation of data and spring information with statistical evidence are also included in the unit to ensure the learners are able to enhance their understanding of developing effective business writing.

Lastly, this unit focuses on building the understanding of using tone, language and level of formality to address different stakeholders. These are aspects that indicate the level of commutation within the hierarchies in the organisation and the seriousness or urgency within the business writing. By incorporating this aspect, the learner is able to ensure that the intention of the business writing is accurately determined and ensure that the business writing meets its intended purpose.

Evaluation

8600-304 Writing for Business is assessed using different methods. Written assessment is used as the main summative assessment tool. There the learners are required to respond to questions that are provided with a template on the unit. This response must include theoretical information and examples from case studies and organisations where the learner has gained experience. The summative assessment is conducted using supervised practice and simulation, where the assessor is able to determine the ability of the learner to use the learned principles and concepts.