I chose to look at Penguin Randomhouse’s website. Corporate writing from my perspective seems to be any writing used within business, be that proposals (in the case of a company like Penguin, that would include book proposals/queries) or descriptions of what the company does. I’ve copied and pasted Penguin’s company description here and also am including a link to a book proposal, as it would be too long to include I think :https://writersedgeservice.com/sample-book-proposal-from-a-professional-literary-agency/

The reason I chose Penguin is twofold. On a personal level, I’d like to work in publishing in some aspect someday. But also I think that the publishing industry is a fairly obvious choice for a discussion of corporate writing because it’s quite literally based around writing. All industries ARE to an extent—communication skills are central to business, after all. Yet publishing is one of the few that makes this centrality fully apparent—while writing is important in the medical and legal fields, for example, it is not typically given the acknowledgement it deserves. Publishing is a field about writing, creative and otherwise.

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