假老练贸易有限公司:BEC-V不完全攻略——写作:Note of Business English Writing (A)
之前的日志简要介绍了一下个人对BEC-V的看法和各个部分的介绍,接下来给大家奉上个人关于写作部分的总结。都是从 商务英语写作 课上的笔记总结而来。这篇包括了MEMO, REPORT 和图表分析。小作文只写了MEMO,因为留言这样的东西想必大家都会写了。另一项内容:信件将在今日奉上。另外,由于是从笔记总结,难免有疏忽和不到位的地方,大家多多包涵。希望大家顺利通过。
小作文
MEMO备忘录
Memorandum (singular)
Memoranda (pluaral)
What is a MEMO?
Memo in Latin means “a thing to be remembered”. A business memo is a standard or written communication in academics.
Purpose of a Memo
Usually you write memos to inform readers of specific information.
Purpose Example
To reply an enquiry(询盘、咨询) To answer questions about the procedures of overtime pay(滞纳金) claim
To confirm To confirm the date of delivery 装运日期
To request decisions To request a Sales Report from the Sale Department
To complain(投诉) To express dissatisfaction with the slow service of the Internet
Technology Dep
To apologize To express apology for the delay in submitting the figures to the
Administrations Department
To thank To express gratitude for colleagues effort in organizing a trade fair
备忘录格式
Title MEMORANDUM
To: To
Heading FR: From
DA: Date
RE: Subject
Title: 居中 全拼写
Heading:
Line: A line seprates the heading from the body.
Body: With no indentation 无缩进
- l Aaaaaaa
- l Bbbbbbb
- l Cccccccc (开头的黑点称为”bullet”)
例文
第二次董事会会议
Title(由繁到简)
- Minutes(会议记录)of the meeting of the Second Board fo Directors
- Minutes of the Meeting of the Second Board of Directors
- Minutes of the Second Meeting of the Board of Directors
- Minutes of the Second Meeting: Board of Director
- Board of Director: Meeting of the Second Meeting
- Board of Director: Meeting Minutes, October 23,2007
Body (2-5 paragraphs)
A.Opening paragraph/sentence
(state) I’d like to state...
B. Discussing paragraph
give details about the concern/problem
describe the task/assignment in detail
C. Closing/Summary paragraph
大作文
Business Report
A business report is a formal document used to research, analyze, and record past business performance or activities.
Within the workplace, reports are used most often to track business activities, analyze problems, and document accomplishments.
Reports are usually written in the point-by-point organizational style with a serious.
Investigative Report 事件调查报告
Weekly Report 周报告
Monthly Report 月报告
Progress Report 进展报告
Feasibility Report 可行性报告
Survey Report 意见调查报告
Example Report
Introduction Findings Conclusion Recommendation
Title
“Report on Improving the Training Methods of HDC”
“Report on the Proposed Incentive Scheme”
“Report on the Adoption of Flex-time Working Systems”
Introduction
The report examines/explains…
The purpose of this report is to… investigate/evaluate/study…
The objective of this report is to… recommend/analyze/give…
The aim of this report is to… feedback/estimate/asses…
Enclosed is a report about…
Methodology/Proceedings
A sample of workers was individually asked for their opnions.
抽取、选择=selection
A questionnaire was completed by those who were surveyed in this project.
问卷调查 与本项目相关的调查对象完成的……
The information was mainly achieved with a number of telephone calls to manufacturers.
Findings
The findings of the investigation indicate that…
It was proposed/found/felt/discovered that…
It was generally the case that…
Most people thought/suggested that…
A number of people mentioned that…
Several changes were put forward…
Several staff members expressed the view that...
图表
关键词
Describing Trend or Moments
Break even 持平
Bar chart 柱状图 Pie chart 流程图 Pie chart 饼状图
Graph 曲线图:
To stagnate 停滞 To surge 飞涨,激增
To stumble 大幅下滑 To slump 锐减
To top out 达到顶峰 To bottom out 降至最低
To crash 暴跌 To soar 猛增
To plunge 突降 To plummet 速降,暴跌=plunge
Sales leveled off from July. 逐渐持平
remained the same.
increased sharply from June.
rose gradually through/over the year. 缓慢增长
句型
- The table shows the changes in the number of… over the period from… to…
- The bar chart illustrates that…
- The graph provide some interesting data regarding.
- The diagram shows…
- The pie graph depicts…
- This is a graph which describes the trend of…
- The figures/statistics show…
- The tree diagram reveals show…
开头
As is shown by the graph/in the table…
结尾
It can be seen/shown/concluded/estimated that…
例文
This line chart shows the population of Chicago from 1500 to 2000. We can get the information that the populate had better around the 1900, the rate peaked. Both in the beginning and ending of this 100 years it creased slowly. Then, after 1950, the population fell also in the same rate.