ABSTRACT
A business text is always unique. The pitfalls that regularly plague writers are also specific for every type of text. A policy paper is a text in which a company describes and justifies its future policy. It is an action plan that goes beyond the evaluation of a problem but is not usually as concrete as an implementation plan. A policy paper may be occasioned by various issues, each requiring its own approach. A literature report contains a description and an evaluation of the most authoritative literature sources on a certain subject. In educational contexts, the writer of a literature report is sometimes asked to demonstrate that he or she is able to independently formulate a research problem, search for information on the subject, evaluate it critically and record the result in a scientifically sound way. The reader of a research report will always wants to know how the research was done.
