Title Outlines Business Initiatives Business Communication Perspectives Recycling Your English The Right Report Write for Business Business Writing for Hong Kong Developing Business Contacts International Business English How to Write and Present Technical Information Practise Advanced Writing Business Reports in English Executive Decisions

Shelf Writing Business Business Writing Writing Integrated Skills Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Business Career English Writing Business Writing Business

Level EI EI I I I I I I I I UI UI UI UI

Unit 14 08 06 13 57 All All 23 01 04 9-12 11 All p.166

(Levels: E = Elementary; EI = Early Intermediate; I = Intermediate; UI = Upper Intermediate)

Other Report Writing pages:

Content and Organisation

• Report writing template: useful phrases and expressions to use in your report.
• Types of Report - the names of different types of report and what they mean.
• Report Stages and Content - what goes in each section of a report.
• Stages and Language of a Report - useful phrases for the sections of a report
• Report Headings - understand the type of information each section of a report should contain.
• Subject Headings - how to write correct subject headings.

Introductions

• Report Writing: Introductions - a page to help you understand the content and grammar of report introductions. It contains explanations, an example and an exercise.
• Report Introductions - a text-reconstruction exercise to help you remember the language of the introduction to a report.

Method / Methodology / Procedure

• The Procedure / Method / Methodology section of a report: how to write it.
• The Procedure / Method section of a report - a text-reconstruction exercise to help you remember the language of this section of a report.

Findings and Discussion

• Matching Nouns and Verbs for Reports - an exercise in choosing the right vocabulary for reports.
• Formality - an exercise to help you to write reports using formal language.
• Describing Numbers - an explanation, a program to write and speak a number, and an exercise
• Trends - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe trends. Includes an exercise.
• Trends Headings - this exercise shows how to use headings when describing trends. Includes an exercise.
• The Language of Approximation - an exercise in describing numbers in an easy-to-understand way
• Approximation Correction exercise - to check that you can use the language of approximation correctly
• Approximating Dissatisfaction - an exercise to help you describe dissatisfaction
• Describing Satisfaction in the Findings and Conclusion sections of a report - choosing between 'satisfy', 'satisfied', 'satisfying' and 'satisfactory', etc.
• Important or Importance? Explanation and exercise on which word to use when describing Findings and Conclusions.

Conclusion

• The Conclusion section - an explanation, an example and an exercise.

Recommendations

• Report Recommendations - an explanation, an example and an exercise.
• Report Recommendations Correction Exercise - correct the common errors.

Practice Materials

• Report Correction Exercise - correct these common errors made by students in report writing, so that you can avoid making the same mistakes.
• List of common errors in report writing assignments
• Common Errors in Report Writing - revision exercise.
• Report Writing Scenario Site - practice the whole process of report writing
• Scanner - a program that highlights the words in a text that are easy for a reader to find. Use it to improve the organisation and reader-friendliness of your writing.
• List of Materials in CILL for Business reports

 

---

If you have any suggestions or questions, please e-mail us at .

Last Revised: 21 May 2004