Unit 1

Unit 1 Presenting Information

Business Documents

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Business Documents Scenario

This purpose of this Unit is to prepare the student for an examination. The student will practice creating some standard business documents, and then complete the pre-release tasks. Last year it was Mind's Eye Marketing plc.

The Unit develops skills in:

writing original documents in styles that suit your readers
improving the accuracy and readability of the documents you create
improving the quality of presentation in documents you create
choosing and applying standard document layouts
understanding and developing good practice in your use of ICT.

You will create and compose a variety of documents using layouts and styles that suit their different purposes. You will compare the style and layout of documents you originate with similar documents produced by organisations.

The student will need to learn the following:

styles of writing and presentation
types of information
document layout
presentation techniques
standard ways of working.

Details of the above Requirements are on a Word document.

Practice on creating your own business documents, in the next sections are examples of various documents to practice.

The general theme is 'Betty's Beauty Products'.

You are the secretary of 'Betty's Beauty Products'. Your task while you are employed there is to design the company's own style of documents with their own letterhead and logo.

You will be required to:

Collect sample business documents.
Design and produce your own style of documents.
Save all the documents as templates so that they can be used as many times as is needed.
Print the sample template for each document.
Print a sample of each completed document for each style using the saved templates.
Annotate your work and show how your documents have developed.
Write an evaluation about each document that you have produced and how it compares to your collected samples.

You will work on these Documents:

Agenda.
Business card.
Business letter.
Flyer or Invoice.
Memorandum.
Newsletter.