Meaning trap
write up
evaluate formally
To produce a formal, often critical, evaluation or assessment of someone or something, especially in a professional, academic, or business context.
Don't mix these meanings
Same phrase, different job.
To produce a formal, often critical, evaluation or assessment of someone or something, especially in a professional, academic, or business context.
'write up' also has the more basic meaning 'to write a report or article using notes you made earlier'; this is the advanced sense.
Hear it in context
Notice where the phrase sounds natural.
- The manager decided to write up the employee for repeated lateness, which will go on his record.business
- In some organisations, supervisors are required to write up staff members who violate company policy, ensuring that there is a formal record of any misconduct.IELTS speaking
Fix the pattern
Pattern: write up someone/something
WrongShe was written up of poor performance.
RightShe was written up for poor performance.
'Write someone up FOR' something — not 'of'.
Patternwrite up someone/something
Use it right
Choose the version that sounds natural in speech.
'Write someone up' is the workplace verb for formally reporting them (American usage); the formal version is wordy.
Build natural chunks
Words that usually travel with it.
write up + forfor misconductfor being latea reviewa report on
Don't confuse it
This sense is different from the B1 meaning of 'write up' (to create a report from notes), as it focuses on the act of formally evaluating or assessing, not just reporting information.
Related
- write up (to write a report or article using notes you made earlier) — 'write up' also has the more basic meaning 'to write a report or article using notes you made earlier'; this is the advanced sense.