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Reports
Part One
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Today's Objectives
Objectives
- Know what reports are.
- Know what headlines are.
- Know the layout of reports.
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Report
What is a report?
- Reports are written to describe or classify the way things are or seem to be.
- They organize and record information.
Techniques and Features of Report Writing
Features
Features
Purpose: To report events, facts and details in a formal manner.
Structure: Use subheadings and topic sentences to start paragraphs.
Style: Accurate information and formal tone.
*You normally use the past tense and the passive in this type of writing!
Headlines
Headlines
A headline is a short summary of what the report is about. To write a headline:
- Use the present simple for recent events: (FACTORY EXPLOSION DAMAGES TOWN.)
- Use to-infinitive to describe a future event: (LOCAL FOOTBALL TEAM TO FLY TO ITALY FOR CHAMPIONS' LEAGUE.)
- Use to be + past participle when using the passive voice to describe a future event: (TEACHERS' ANNUAL EVENT TO BE HELD IN AUGUST.)
- Use abbreviations like: UK, UNESCO, KSA (UN RESCUES HOSTAGES IN FRANCE)
- Don't use full stops or commas, pronouns, auxiliary verbs (SEVEN INJURED IN TRAIN CRASH = Seven people were injured in a train crash)
- Omit the verb "to be" when using the passive to describe a past event (YOUNG GIRL SAVED BY RESCUE WORKERS = Young girl was saved by rescue workers.)
Layout
A news report should
consist of:
a) a short, eye-catching
headline.
b) an introduction.
c) a main body.
d) a conclusion.
Your assignment
Assignment
Refer back to your Successful Writing book page 74. Look at exercise 4 and look at the first example, then solve 2-6 and submit your work on a Word Document.
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