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Writing reference
Proposals and reports &YFSDJTF
Read the sample answer.
In both proposals and reports, you are Has the writer dealt with all parts of the task?
expected to write in clearly organised Find examples of where the writer has avoided repeating vocabulary
sections and include factual information from the exam task by rephrasing or using synonyms (e.g. make it easier
leading to a suggestion, recommendation facilitating). Why is this a good approach?
or conclusion. Underline phrases used to introduce suggestions and recommendations,
e.g. I would suggest …
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Proposal for integrating new students
When you write a proposal you are trying from other countries
to persuade readers to follow a course of
action. Your reader may be someone in Introduction Where possible,
a superior position to you, in which case answer using your
The purpose of this proposal is to suggest ways of own vocabulary,
you will need quite a formal style; or you
facilitating overseas students’ integration into this not the words
may be writing for colleagues or fellow used in the exam
college.
members of a club, in which case the task. Planning
style will be a little less formal – you can Overseas students’ problems before you write
address your readers more personally, There are two diffi culties which newly arrived students will help with this.
using contracted verb forms. In both cases have. Firstly, they are unfamiliar with the academic
the format should be the same. You have system in our country. Secondly, they often fi nd it
to make a persuasive case for action(s) diffi cult to integrate on a social level with other students
that should be taken, based on factual and the general population here.
information.
Social activities
You studied how to write a proposal in
Judging by recent fi gures, it is clear that social activities
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organised by the college are not well attended. It has
been noted that very few new students from other Use the format
&YFSDJTF countries attend, especially in their fi rst year. This may of a proposal, i.e.
Read the writing task below. be partly due to poor publicity, but, more seriously, it a title, sections,
Underline the things you must deal with in may be because there are is not a wide enough variety headings, an
introduction and a
your answer. of activities attractive to foreign students. I would conclusion.
Who is going to read the proposal? What recommend asking new students themselves for their
would be a suitable style? ideas on the kinds of social activities they would enjoy
and I suggest we should invite these students to take
part in organising new activities.
You are a member of the Students’
Council at the college where you study. Student advisers
The principal of the college wants to It would also be a good idea, in my opinion to instigate
make it easier for fi rst year students a new advisory system. This, more than anything,
from other countries to fi t into college would overcome students’ problems with both the
life and has invited you to send in a
academic system and social aspects of their life at the
proposal with practical suggestions. You Don’t spend
college. A more experienced adviser or mentor would
have been asked specifi cally to consider a long time
be responsible for helping new students from other
improving the range of social activities counting words,
countries to understand our system by giving them but keep within
on offer and appointing student advisers
guidance and advice, while also introducing them to the word limit.
to help new students.
other students and helping them to make friends. If you write too
little, you are
Write your proposal.
Conclusion probably missing
important points.
I suggest that we ask for volunteers to help with all the If you write too
areas mentioned above. much, you risk
being irrelevant.
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