Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Topics:
Introduction
Title Page
• A title page records the report title, writer, reader, and date
Table of Contents
Guidelines
o List all major headings with the same wording
used in the report
o List all subsections, indented under major
headings, if the subheading contains topics
that readers are likely to need
o List all formal report elements, such as the
abstract and the appendices except for the
title page
o Include the titles of the appendices
o Do not underline headings in the table of the
contents even if they are underlined in the text.
• Any graphic aid, such as bar graph, map, or flowchart that is not
a table with numbers or words in columns, is called a figure
• The list of figures follows the table of contents
• List each figure; the list of figures follows the table of contents
• List each figure by both number and title, and indicate page
numbers
―The construction and decorating will take about 10 weeks and cost $245,000.
The conversion is expected to halt a 5-year define in local customer traffic and
occupancy rates. This redesign of the conference room should put the hotel in
a favorable position to compete for the convention groups interested in history
and the arts.‖
Example:
Problem:
The hotel has experienced declining occupancy rates and declining
local customer traffic for the past 5 years…‖
LEARNING PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG
MODULE MUNTINLUPA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
University Road, Poblacion, Muntinlupa City
QR/CBA/0__ Course Title: Technical Writing / Business Correspondence
Issue No. 0 Revision No. 0 Effectivity Date 7 September 2020 Page No. 5
Guidelines:
Guidelines:
• Arrange the glossary of the list of symbols alphabetically
• Do not number the terms or symbols
LEARNING PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG
MODULE MUNTINLUPA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
University Road, Poblacion, Muntinlupa City
QR/CBA/0__ Course Title: Technical Writing / Business Correspondence
Issue No. 0 Revision No. 0 Effectivity Date 7 September 2020 Page No. 6
Documenting Sources
used the hanging indent method (all lines after the first one are
indented)
o Citations in the text
o If, as in the instance of online material, the source has neither visible
paragraph nor page numbers, cite the heading and the number of the
paragraph following it
o ―The patient wrote that she was unimpressed by the doctor‘s bedside
manner (Smith, 2006, Hospital Experiences section, para.2).
Chapter of a book
o ―Bergquist, J.M. (1991). German Americans. In H.D. Buenker & L. A.
Ratner (Eds.) Multiculturalism in the United States: A comparative guide
to acculturation and ethnicity (pp.53-76). New York, NY: Greenwood.‖