This course has covered various types of business communication—each with its own format
and characteristics. In other college courses, you will write academic papers formatted
according to guidelines in the Axia CollegeÂ’s Writing Style Handbook. This CheckPoint
provides you with an opportunity to compare the ways business and academic writing are
similar and different.
• Resources: Microsoft® Word tutorial, Designing Documents Tutorial, and Axia College’s
Writing Style Handbook
• Due Date: Day 4 [Individual] forum
• Review the Microsoft® Word tutorial at
http://corptrain.phoenix.edu/office_tools/word_root.htm, the Designing Documents
Tutorial at
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/techcomm/content/cat_030/designWP/index.html, and
Chapter 1 in Axia CollegeÂ’s Writing Style Handbook.
• Address the following in 200-300 words: Suggest two tips for creating academic
documents not mentioned in the resource information. Which guidelines do you think are
most important for formatting papers? Which guidelines appear less important to the
message of a business document but more important to the message of an academic
paper? Explain your answers.