OCR AS Applied ICT

Business Documents

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Business letter

• You are going to produce a business letter. You are to decide on the purpose and the audience of the business letter.

Business Letter

• Plan

• Produce

• Evaluate

Plan

• Plan the layout and content of the letter (on paper)

• Use common standards (e.g. layout of a letter)

Produce• Use common standards• Use a range of software tools • Combine different types of data (text / clip art etc)• Create the first draft • Annotate the first draft • Spell check / proof read • Correct errors• Annotate drafts to show how you developed your document to

meet its purpose• Top Tips: • Automate your work for a higher grade: • Create letter head - save documents as a template - use template

for creating the letter

Evaluate

• To evaluate your presentation you should consider:

– what is good about it, what worked well;

– what is not so good, what did not work;

– how well it meets its purpose;

– what could be improved if you produced it again;

– how you refined your draft copies to meet the purpose more closely.

• To evaluate your performance you should consider:

– what went well;

– what went badly;

– what you would do differently if you had to do a similar task in future.