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WRITING STRATEGIES FOR ADVANCED LEVELS
SURVEY REPORTS

I- DEFINITION
Survey reports present and analyze the results /findings of research information
gathered from door- to-door surveys/questionnaires) concerning reactions to a
product, plan , etc, including general assessment, conclusions and suggestions or
recommendation(s).
II- STRUCTURE
A successful report should consist of:
 An introductory paragraph which clearly states the purpose and content
of the report
 A main body in which the relevant information is presented in detail under
suitable subheadings; and
 A conclusion which summaries the information given, and may include an
opinion
III-WRITING A SURVEY REPORT
 The information presented may have been gathered in a survey/opinion poll or
compiled from official statistical data, and may reflect the opinions/preferences,
etc of the general public, a particular group of people, a random sample of the
population, etc.
 The information may be presented in the form of facts ( numbers, percentages and
proportions), or generalizations ( This indicates/suggests/implies that…)
 Use expressions such as: one in ten, two out of five, twenty per cent of the people
questioned, a large proportion, etc. as well as verbs such as: agree, claim, state
 Present tenses are normally used to present generalizations.
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1. Useful language to begin reports
 The purpose/aim/intention of this report is to examine/assess/evaluate the
results of a survey in which…..people/residents/viewers were asked
about/whether/what….
 This report outlines the results of a survey conducted/carried out to
determine/discover the reaction/popularity/attitudes/opinion of….
 As requested, this survey report was gathered/obtained by means of a
questionnaire/a telephone survey/door-to-door interviews…
 The information below summarises statistics compiled by….
2. Useful language to end reports
 To conclude/ to sum up/ In conclusion, the survey clearly shows….
 On the basis of these findings, it would seem that……
 The results of this survey suggest/indicate/demonstrate/reveal that…
3. More useful language
a.To express facts and proportions
 Of the 460 people/students/workers who, etc, were
questioned/interviewed/asked…
 10/50% of people/consumers, etc were of the opinion…
 The majority/minority of viewers ,etc felt/believed that..
 A significant percentage of those who responded expressed (dis)approval of..
 A large/small proportion of people surveyed replied/reported that…
 Over one third/half of those interviewed chose/ preferred…
b.To express generalizations
we use:
 On the whole/Mainly/In general terms/generally speaking..
 Most consumers prefer…., which is shown/illustrated by the fact that
 It is generally felt that…, as proved/demonstrated by the fact that…
 Few people approve of…., as confirmed/emphasised by the fact that….
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 This fact suggests/implies/indicates that the average person chooses..
4. Making recommendations
 In the light of the results of the survey/questionnaire the introduction of a small
fee would seem to be the best choice/option/solution
 I would recommend, therefore, the purchase of five more computers and laser
printer
 My recommendations are as follows:
IV- EXAMPLE
This report is the sumary of the survey that was carried out due to the high
percentage of second year English-majored students in HUCFL had to repeat the
listening course each semester. The purpose of this was to discover problems in
English listening skills of sophomore English-majored students as well as possible
solutions to improve it more effectively. Survey method was chosen to obtain data. A
total of 40 subjects selected were sophomore English-majored students from Hue
College of Foreign Languages.
All (100.00%) surveyed subjects agreed that listening skills is an important
skill and said that their skill needed further improvements. Problems mentioned in the
survey were catching up with the most common problems of surveyed subjects with
the average agreeing percentage was at 82.50%. Two problems listed below were the
most common problems that sophomore English-majored students have to face with
in the listening matter.
The first problems with the agreeing percentage at 90.00% is that second-year
student’s lack of interest and enthusiasm made them tend to ignore this skills and
focus on other skills, which lead to the falling of grade.
The second problems with the agreeing percentage at 85.00% are the lack of
practical work. Second-year students do not often have chances to talk directly to
native speakers. This was why they said native speakers spoke so fast or didn’t

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understand them because they often used slangs and idioms. This is also why they
could not catch up with the listening dialog.
In the light of the result of the survey, we would recommend that both the
university and the students need to take actions to address this. For the university, we
think that it must find more opportunities to help us get chances to communicate with
the native speakers to improve our skills. Beside this, the lecturers also need to try
new way of teaching to get more attentions and interests from their students. For
students ourselves, we must actively try to solve this by getting to talk with English
speaking tourists which are a lot in a tourist city like Hue and also working in those
coffee and drinking shops that they are usually visit. We also have to raise our interest
in listening as find the way that is more suiting in this matter of improving listening
skills as watching English movies and music for example.
In conclusions, all surveyed subjects acknowledged that listening skills is an
important skills and they are generally bad at it. The lack of interest, enthusiasm and
practical works are the most well-known problems sharing between them. Therefore,
to address these problems, both the college and the students themselves have to be
aware of this and change their ways of studding and find more opportunities to
practice.

LECTURER: VO THI THUY CHUNG