This guide seeks to unify criteria for the production of texts written in the academic community of the Universidad EAN. As a result, focuses the development of discourse competence, through scriptural practices consistent with the demands that businesses need professionals. The first part is dedicated to the development of the most common academic documents such as: report, descriptive review, critique, the expository essay and the argumentative, and the second, covers the documents used in business writing, such as the report, the business letter and the Act.