秘书英文写作 刘立莹 第一章 Project Eight.pptVIP

Leading case 【Case Background】 If you are assigned to be a secretary, I think, writing reports is portion of your work. And if you work in other department of a company, you will have chance of writing them because there are kinds of reports： Such as financial reports, productive reports, invest mental reports yearly reports, sales’ reports and research reports and so forth. The purpose of writing reports is to provide your working places with information, which will take you a long time to finish it. Reports can be divided into formal and informal ones. Formal ones, which include table of contents, appendixes and diagrams apart from the following structures of reports, are very serious. Informal ones, generally speaking, are interoffice-Memos-style ones. Imagine you work as a sales manager with ABC Int’l Co. Ltd. Now you’ve been required to write a report about the sales of the last quarter of the company. Leading case 【Practical Task】 If you were the manager, have you ever known what are the elements in such a report? Can you imagine what information should be included in this report? Can you write a report for the manager within an hour？The letter should not be less than 700 words. Task analysis How to Write Business Report Reports, put simply, are messages that present a collection of data thoughtfully adapted to the needs of the reports readers—to help them make informed decisions within a professional context. People write reports because they need to or choose to transmit information that will help accomplish specific business goals as they inform, persuade, or both. Because report readers use reports to obtain information for a variety of purposes unique to each situation, reports often vary from organization. Nevertheless, most reports are similar in that readers use reports to learn about activities and to make informed decisions. A report is effective only if it gets read, understood, and used by its target audiences. Effective reports must, in the br