Sample annotation of a book

The book by G.B.Giles is entitled “Marketing”. It was first published in London by Pitman Publishing, division of Longman Group Limited in 1968 and its sixth and last edition was in 1994. It comprises 286 pages, three parts, each of which is organised into smaller parts. In addition the book has four appendices.

This is a concise, theoretically sound, yet practically oriented handbook with a special focus on major changes that have taken place over recent years in supply / demand situations having a major impact on marketing planning and execution, and thus on education and planning.

Useful vocabulary

The present paper discusses some aspects of …

The problem is concerned with …

The text is devoted to …

The purpose (aim) of this text is to compare (to determine, to give, to show) the results of

In this paper we shall attempt to discuss (to prove) some properties of …

Further study proves (has proved, proved) that …

Detailed analysis shows that …

To my mind (in my opinion) …

From my point …

To my knowledge (As far as I know …, As I can judge …)

The data … is reported…

The information … is available …

The results … are obtained …

The conclusion…are made …

It seems (quite) clear (likely, unlikely, doubtful, obvious, surprising, possible, impossible, unexpected) that

To obtain some data

To make a thorough study of the problem

To get much information

To make some observation

To solve some problems

To lead to / to result in

To cause

To give rise to

To bring about

It goes without saying

It is better to/ useful to

It is easy to …/It is important to

It should be observed (noted, mentioned, emphasized, pointed out) that …

It is found out that …

It is known that …

It is believed that …

It is likely that …

It seems that …

Appendix 2

Unit 1

Не нашли, что искали? Воспользуйтесь поиском: