The Result Followed by a Recommendation.
What to think about: Be objective, impartial, base all your statements on facts, logos.
OUTLINE
1. Describe your theme. As requested…, I have been assigned to assess the possibility to find a location for a new sports centre close to the city centre…
2. Introduction. The purpose of this assessment has been to… Despite the efforts I have found this work very satisfying and it reminds me of… (here you can use a quotation…) what Thomas Henry Huxley once said: “Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.” (Huxley had planned to leave Oxford instead of participating in a debate but he changed his mind, stayed, debated and won…)
Thesis. First of all I would like to say that I will recommend … rather than… Here you can use phrases like: It would be ideal to… It would/not be advantageous/practical to…
3. Summary of Reasons. The main reason… But I will return to that later on.
4. General Conditions/Problems/Challenges. The reason for this issue… At the same time…
5. Alternative Actions. In this situation there may be two possible solutions.
6. Comparisons/Advantages – Disadvantages. The advantage of the first alternative is … while on the other hand there are two serious disadvantages connected to… Regarding the second alternative… there is one also a problem but…
7. Additional Alternatives. Furthermore, it would be possible to solve most problems if one took a third alternative into consideration… However… In addition…
8. Recommendation. On the basis on the points mentioned above… Therefore I recommend… The only/obvious conclusion to be drawn from these facts is…