ADVANCED WRITING SKILLS: NOTICE
A notice is written or printed information that can be in the form of an official statement of public importance or a warning in advance. The basic purpose is to disseminate information related to various issues or occasions. It is written in simple and formal language and is always brief to the point. Most notices are meant to be pinned up or pasted on special boards meant for the purpose.
Remember:
1) The purpose of the notice is to inform.
2) It should have the word ‘NOTICE’. Do not underline the name of institute and the word ‘NOTICE”
3) It should have an underlined heading.
4) It should have a date in the formal form.
5) Do not use 1st and 2nd person. It should be written in third person.
The ‘wh’ questions give the skeleton form of the answer: a) what is being organized? Who is organizing? Which is the target group? When is it being held? Where is it being held? Additional information. Whom to contact? Last date of submission and to whom.
6) Agenda is written if there is a meeting
7) If place of the institute is mentioned write it along with the name
8) Do not use informal language.
9) The name and designation of the signatory should be mentioned.
10) Do not exceed the word limit. (Format -2 Mks, Content-2 Mks.)
FORMAT
SAMPLES
Q: You are Suresh Pandey, Secretary of K.A. Residents’ Welfare Society, Indirapuram. Write a notice requesting the members of the society to attend a meeting to discuss the problem of water supply and power back-up of your society.
Q: Your school is organizing a Blood Donation Camp in association with the Red Cross Society of India. Write a notice giving essential details about the same. Sign yourself as the Principal of the school. (Word limit – 50 words)
Q. Ramanujan has lost his English Book entitled ‘History of English Literature’ by W. Smith. He decides to put up a notice on the students’ notice board of the school. He is a student of class XII of Saint Patrick’s School, New Delhi. Write a notice in not more than 50 words.
You are Bhumika Sahni, the President, Cultural Forum of Army School; you have organized an inter-school Patriotic Singing competition on Republic Day. Write a notice in about 50 words, informing the students about this event.
Write a notice for your school notice board inviting students to join the Educational Tour for the class XI and XII. Invent other necessary details.
PRACTICE QUESTIONS.
1) Very soon your school is going to be a centre for CBSE examinations. You have seen that during lunch break students of junior classes keep going around the examination rooms and make all kinds of noises. You are Navtej/Navita, Head Boy/Head Girl, Akash Public School, Ajmer. Write a notice in about 50 words warning such students not to go near the examination rooms.
2) The Sports Club of Bishop Cotton School, Simla, is planning to organize a hiking-trekking expedition in Nepal. Invent necessary details and draft the notice about the expedition for the school notice board in not more than 50 words. You are John/Joanna, the Secretary of Sports Club.
3) The Physical Department of Kendriya Vidhyalaya, Tezpur, is organizing a Summer Camp for training students in hockey and basketball. Invent necessary details and draft a notice in about 50 words. You are Ali/Aliya, the Sports Coordinator.
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