Examples of text types

action plans, strategies and directors’ reports
advertisements
annual reports
appeals
application forms
applications for summons
auditors’ reports
balance sheets
brochures
budgets and financial plans
calls for tenders and tender documents
certificates and other official documents
contracts
corporate publications
court decisions
databases
decrees and regulations
extracts from registers
financial releases
financial statements
forms
games and game instructions
instructions and guides
instructions and manuals
interim reports
legislation
letters, speeches
manuals and handbooks
manuscripts
marketing materials
medical case histories
meeting agendas
menus
minutes of meetings
mobile applications
newsletters
non-fiction books and textbooks
package inserts
patent applications
patient and hospital documents
press articles
press releases
reports, statements
safety data sheets
scientific articles, publications, research reports, abstracts
slogans
software
stakeholder publications (e.g. personnel, investor, member and client publications)
subtitles
summaries of product characteristics
terms of sale and purchase
textbooks, teaching materials
user interfaces
websites
wills and testaments