Successful Business Report Writing Acknowledgements During the process of writing this thesis, I was lucky enough to obtain much help and advice from many people. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to them.First and foremost, I wish to offer my heartfelt thanks to my respected tutor, Professor Luo Guoliang, for the warmth and understanding which he gave me, for the energy and time which he devoted to the improvement and polishing of my drafts, and for his advice and encouragement. Without all this, I could not have completed this thesis. Next, I would like to thank all the dedicated teachers of the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, who have spared no efforts to enrich my professional or theoretical knowledge in the past two and a half years. My acknowledgement also goes to my roommates and friends. Their encouragement, care and help were absolutely necessary to my timely completion of the thesis.Finally, I would like to give my thanks to my beloved family for their tender love, consistent encouragement and selfless support over the years. Abstract With the globalization of world economy and China’s entry into the WTO, more and more foreign enterprises have been targeting and investigating China as their market. Consequently, the effectiveness of communication cannot be over-emphasized. As a major means of communication, the business report is playing an increasingly important role in business organizations. Therefore, this thesis is aimed at a constructive discussion of the basic principles and especially the linguistic requirements for successful business report writing. Consisting of six chapters, this thesis presents a relatively complete study of report writ...