怎樣備考BEC商務(wù)英語寫作

　　商務(wù)英語寫作是劍橋商務(wù)英語證書(BEC)中級考試的測試重點之一,是從事商務(wù)范疇人員與業(yè)務(wù)往來者交流的必備技能之一,是檢測學生寫作能力的重要方式之一.但模式化現(xiàn)象在商務(wù)報告寫作中表現(xiàn)得尤為明顯.

　　BEC商務(wù)英語系列: 怎樣備考BEC商務(wù)英語寫作

　　首先一點，我們必須牢記，歸根結(jié)底，BEC作文考察的還是考生英語表達能力。所以學生并不需要擔心自己缺乏這方面的實際經(jīng)驗是否會影響考場發(fā)揮。(順便提一句，BEC高級對商務(wù)知識的要求大大提高，因此考生要在語言功底上苦下功夫。比如說，寫商務(wù)報告的固定格式和用于必須牢記在心。)

　　與此同時，試題結(jié)合商務(wù)實戰(zhàn)的特點，要求文章必須包含特定信息點，或者是通過提供信息源，以及考題中的標注，規(guī)定考生寫作的具體范圍和內(nèi)容。所以審題是關(guān)鍵，所有已知條件都必須充分利用，換言之，如果遺漏已知條件，就會因信息表達不完整而導致失分。以下是對我的一名學員習文進行點評。

　　PART ONE---You have been informed that next Wednesday your company's computer system will be closed down so that improvements can be made.Write an email to all staff in your department: saying what time on Wednesday the system will be closed down suggesting how staff should prepare for this saying how the system will be better after the improvements Write 40--50 words

　　學生作文：

　　From: Jenny Xu

　　To: All Staff

　　Date: 5 April 2009

　　Subject: Computer System

　　I want to tell you that our Intranet based on Linux will be closed next Wednesday at 10 o’clock.. I want to suggesting that you should save all your important documents. The computer system will be faster because we will use a newer SAP system. The new system is according to ISO900 and we will benefit from that.

　　作文解析：

　　BEC作文解答時，審題非常重要。題目中給出的要求就好比是解代數(shù)題中已知條件，都要用到。小作文處理的時候，大家不妨可以把每一個已知條件擴寫成一句句句子，同時兼顧句子之間的連接。

　　通常學生犯的錯誤是：

　　1. 漏掉題中給出的已知條件。

　　2. 給出的已知條件沒有表達清楚，用詞過于口語化，沒有條理，暴露出語言功底薄弱。

　　3. 切忌過于花哨的發(fā)揮，多說多錯。

　　這篇學生的作品是比較典型的案例。作者有一定的英語表達能力和工作經(jīng)驗，但文章中所暴露出來的不足也是明顯的。寫作不能從細處下筆，而是先要搭建框架。以這篇習文為例，作者在具體語言的表達的雕琢上可圈可點，比如說第一個句子中based on引導的過去分詞做后置定語，但是顯而忘記了這篇文章的主要目的，那就是通知同事公司電腦系統(tǒng)要升級，但update這個詞始終沒有在文章中出現(xiàn)，因此讀下來以后，可能同事還不是非常清楚，為什么computer system will be closed down, 盡管后面提到了improvement，總讓人覺得有些如鯁在咽，言之不盡;因此，思路不清晰是這篇習文最大的問題。

　　此外，本文還有以下一些問題：

　　1. 有些用詞過于口語化，比如說，文章開頭, I want to tell you, 文中you should save這樣的用語;

　　2. 建議Linux, 將SAP, ISO900等唬人術(shù)語統(tǒng)統(tǒng)除去，誠然BEC涉及到基本的商務(wù)知識，但是真正考核的還是語言功底，語用能力;商務(wù)知識好比是蓋澆飯里面的小炒而已。

　　3.里面還有一個明顯的語法錯誤，I want to suggesting….，當然閱卷者不會刻意去搜尋語法錯誤，而是綜合考量語法得分，但由于小作文篇幅較短，那么這個錯誤就顯得非常明顯。

　　范文：

　　Please be informed that our computer system will be closed next Wednesday at 12 o'clock for system upgrade. The closure will last for at least two hours. Make sure that you have saved all your documents before that time. The whole system will run on a new server, much faster than the current one.

　　PART TWO-- You work for PJT Ltd, a manufacturing company. You need more staff in your department and your line manager has asked you to write a report explaining why.l Look at the information below, on which you have already made some handwritten notes.l Then, using all your handwritten notes, write your report.l Write 120-140 words.

　　學生作文：

　　The purpose of this report is to explain why we need more staff in our department.We compare the number of staff in our department between 2001 and 2003, it only increased five staff. But the average number of ordered units grow up from 200000 to 400000 between 2001 and 2003. Our sales department has announced a big new order from an international company recently. It will bring us much more workload. And the annual holiday increased to 5 weeks per year. That means that we have more workload and less working days.If we had more staff the order should be on time. We should save our company’s reputation. And the workflow will be improved.