A Proposal 倡议书

1. A Proposal 倡议书 写倡议书的目的: 提倡开展某项有意义的活动、推行某种行之有效的作法。 倡议书中所倡导进行的活动应具有其广泛性和推广意义。

2. Criteria of an effective proposal: Clear Concise Quickly getting to the point

3. 倡议书通常包含以下内容: • 在第一行正中标题处写出倡议的内容，字体较正文稍大。 • 2. 左边顶格写对倡议对象的称呼。

4. 3. Structure • Introduction 发出倡议的根据、原因和目的。 • statement of the problem • how serious is the problem • summary of the proposed solution----in brief, what solution do you propose?

5. 2. Body 所倡议的具体内容和要求。 What do you want done? How should it be done? What things or people are needed? When? How much will it cost? 3. Conclusion 要表示倡议者的决心和希望 benefits—How will the proposal help the person reading the letter a call to action—what do you want the reader to do

6. 4. 结尾处要写上发倡议者的姓名和发出倡议的日期，通常写在右下角。 写倡议书时，尽量使用具有鼓动性和 感召力的语言，如名人名言、格言、 警句、以及对偶、排比等句式，以 提高语言的表达效果。例如，在倡议 书的结尾使用下列句子就可起到很好 的效果。

7. “Believe yourself and you can manage it! Stick to it, and your dream will come true!” “Dear friends, come on! If you think you can, you can!” “Please start from now on! You never know what you can do until you try!”

8. As chairman of the Environmental Protection Committee, I have no reason not to mention different kinds of pollutions we human beings are faced with. Among them, water pollution is one of the serious problems. It threatens the survival of human beings, plants and animals. It is urgent that some strong measures should be adopted to solve the problem. [Introduction of the topic and himself/ threats / proposal)

9. Since we are dependent on water, we should be involved in finding a solution to this problem. We advocate that certain measures should be taken as soon as possible even though it may take a decade or more to improve the water quality, even though it may cost a lot of money to clean the polluted rivers. || In the first place, the governments in both developed countries and the developing countries should lay down rules and regulations in respect of the pollution problem. Secondly, factories in towns and cities must be forbidden to drain waste liquids into rivers, lakes and seas before they are totally treated and purified. (measures / difficulties )

10. I am certain that remarkable results will be achieved in this respect. Rivers which used to be polluted by industrial wastes will be cleaned and fish which could not live there a few years ago will be seen again. Let’s act now to make our world a better place. (foreseeable results/ a call)

11. 例2 报纸上曾出现过一条重要新闻：全国塑料袋有偿使用(pay for plastic bags)。报道中说是国务院办公厅(general office of the State Council)发出的通知，商场、超市和农贸市场等商家将不允许提供免费的塑料袋。请你帮助小区居委会(Community Resident Committee)拟订份倡议书，包含以下内容： 倡议的目的； 倡议的具体内容和建议。 你可能用到的词汇： Re-usable shopping bags可重复使用的购物袋 Degrade 降解 v. Degradable 可降解的adj.

12. As has been announced by the office of the State Council, plastic shopping bags will not be provided free in supermarkets and other shops since June 1st. We will be blessed with a better world free from white pollution from now on.

13. As a plastic bag user myself, I can understand your troubles without plastic bags. But we all know that one single plastic bag will take years to be degraded, which in the meantime, will do a lot of harm to our environment. In addition, plastic bags are poisonous to some extent. In order to make our environment cleaner and healthier, let’s answer our government’s appeal and take action with a positive attitude.

14. Our community residential committee has worked out several plans. First, we can substitute cotton bags and other re-usable bags for those plastic ones. Second, be encouraged to donate used clothes, and in return, cotton shopping bags will be provided for free. Last but not the least, tell your parents, children and friends the importance of using degradable shopping bags. If everyone has formed the new good habit, the society’s awareness of environmental protection will be raised considerably.

15. Let’s join our hands in fighting against white pollution and make our community a better place to live. We believe that your contribution can make a difference.

16. Assignments: • Write a proposal with the title “Battery disposal in our community”