🇳🇱 holandês · B2 · Professional World

Writing a report

15 min de leitura · formeel passief · nominalisering · zakelijk register

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Vocabulário

het rapportthe report
de samenvattingthe summary
de conclusiethe conclusion
de aanbevelingthe recommendation
de bevindingthe finding
het overzichtthe overview
de bijlagethe appendix
de analysethe analysis
het verslagthe report/account
formulerento formulate
de toelichtingthe explanation
de doelstellingthe objective

Writing a Report in Dutch

Formal passive voice and nominalizations are key to professional report writing in Dutch.

Formal passive: Use worden for process and zijn for result. De resultaten worden hieronder besproken (The results are discussed below). De doelstellingen zijn bereikt (The objectives have been achieved).

Nominalizations make writing more formal: Instead of We concluderen dat... (We conclude that...), write De conclusie is dat... (The conclusion is that...). Instead of We bevelen aan dat..., write De aanbeveling is dat... (The recommendation is that...).

Report structure phrases: In dit rapport wordt ingegaan op... (This report addresses...), Uit de analyse blijkt dat... (The analysis shows that...), Op basis van de bevindingen kan worden geconcludeerd dat... (Based on the findings, it can be concluded that...).

Formal register markers: dient (should/must — formal), ten behoeve van (for the benefit of), met betrekking tot (with regard to), naar aanleiding van (following/in response to).

Expressões

In dit rapport wordt ingegaan op...This report addresses...
Uit de analyse blijkt dat...The analysis shows that...
De aanbeveling is dat...The recommendation is that...
Met betrekking tot de resultaten...With regard to the results...
Op basis van de bevindingen...Based on the findings...
Dit dient nader onderzocht te wordenThis should be investigated further

Erros frequentes

~~In dit rapport we bespreken de resultaten~~
In dit rapport worden de resultaten besproken
Use passive voice in formal reports. Worden + past participle is the standard.
~~De conclusie is dat we moeten meer investeren~~
De conclusie is dat we meer moeten investeren
In dat-clauses, the modal verb goes to the end after the adverb.
~~Met betrekking aan de resultaten~~
Met betrekking tot de resultaten
The fixed preposition is tot (not aan) in met betrekking tot.
~~Dit moet nader onderzocht worden te~~
Dit dient nader onderzocht te worden
Use dient...te worden for formal obligation. Te goes before worden.
~~De analyse toont dat...~~
Uit de analyse blijkt dat...
The formal expression is uit...blijkt dat (from...it appears that), not toont (shows).

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