Communication type | Explain communication type & purpose | Likely Audience & reason | Email | The impact of email as a communications method has grown dramatically in the last decade. It has become the most commonly used form of written communication within business organisations, used principally for sending instantaneous and relatively informal message. However, as is the case with many forms of written communication, their effectiveness depends on how quickly they are read and acted on by the recipient. | Businesses would use emails to communicate with other businesses. | Website | The discovery of the many possible business applications of the internet has led to an explosion in its use in recent years. Firms of every size have recognised the benefits to be gained from setting up websites in order to do some, if not all, of the following: * Communicate with markets around the world, increasing sales opportunities * Gather market-research data from primary sources by encouraging customer feedback, as well as allowing access to published secondary sources * Source the most appropriate suppliers, leading to lower prices and/or better quality. | A Website would be used by a large organisation to order products in for their business. | Fax | This is used to communicate externally with other businesses or between departments in different locations. A document containing written or typed text or images is sent via a telephone line by feeding it into a facsimile machine at one end: a copy of the document then appears via another machine at the receiver’s end. | A large business would use Fax to communicate with other departments within the business. | Invoice | This is a document that is used to request payment for goods and services that are sold by businesses on credit. It confirms a number of details, including a description of the goods sold,