formal letters, e-mails, reports, articles

How to write

1. Answer the following questions:

WHO are you? WHO are you writing TO?
What is your social status?

WHY are you writing to the addressee? What is the LAYOUT of your piece of writing?
Who is the reader?

What is his social status? A formal letter, an e-mail, a report, an article? What is the writer-reader relationship?

2. Where do we find these pieces of information?

You are a member of a local travelling club, which organises trips abroad. The travelling club recently organised the trip James Bond Weekend in London, which you took part in. The chairperson of the club has asked you to write a report on the trip. In particular, the chairperson wants you to answer the following questions: What were the highlights of the trip? Were there any problems? Can you suggest any improvements?

WHO are you?

2. Where do we find these pieces of information?

You are a member of a local travelling club, which organises trips abroad. The travelling club recently organised the trip James Bond Weekend in London, which you took part in. The chairperson of the club has asked you to write a report on the trip. In particular, the chairperson wants you to answer the following questions: What were the highlights of the trip? Were there any problems? Can you suggest any improvements?

2. Where do we find these pieces of information?

You are a member of a local travelling club, which organises trips abroad. The travelling club recently organised the trip James Bond Weekend in London, which you took part in. The chairperson of the club has asked you to write a report on the trip. In particular, the chairperson wants you to answer the following questions:

WHO are you

writing TO?

What were the highlights of the trip? Were there any problems? Can you suggest any improvements?

2. Where do we find these pieces of information?

You are a member of a local travelling club, which organises trips abroad. The travelling club recently organised the trip James Bond Weekend in London, which you took part in. The chairperson of the club has asked you to write a report on the trip. In particular, the chairperson wants you to answer the following questions: What were the highlights of the trip? Were there any problems? Can you suggest any improvements?

WHY are you writing

to the addressee?

2. Where do we find these pieces of information?

You are a member of a local travelling club, which organises trips abroad. The travelling club recently organised the trip James Bond Weekend in London, which you took part in. The chairperson of the club has asked you to write a report on the trip. In particular, the chairperson wants you to answer the following questions: What were the highlights of the trip? Were there any problems? Can you suggest any improvements?

What is the LAYOUT of your piece of writing?

WHO are you?

2. Where do we find these pieces of information?

You are a member of a local travelling club, which organises trips abroad. The travelling club recently organised the trip James Bond Weekend in London, which you took part in. The chairperson of the club has asked you to write a report on the trip. In particular, the chairperson wants you to answer the following questions:

WHO are you

writing TO?

What were the highlights of the trip? Were there any problems? Can you suggest any improvements?

WHY are you writing

to the addressee?

What is the LAYOUT of your piece of writing?

3. What about the content?

Discuss only the given topic. Pay attention to how you develop the topic. Give concrete examples. Count the words.
1. Discuss all the given points. 2. Give only relevant information.

Exclude the title, the heading, the salutation.

3. What about the vocabulary?

Use appropriate vocabulary, register and tone.

Good luck with your writing

From: Novosti stroke 2011/2012