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Report Writing Course

Report Writing Course. ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LANGUAGES ADEN UNIVERSITY. Lecture 1. Points to be covered in this lecture: Formal and informal vocabulary Wrting a title page Describing tables and graphs. WRITING A TITLE PAGE. A Title Page

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Report Writing Course

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  1. Report Writing Course ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LANGUAGES ADEN UNIVERSITY Lecture 1

  2. Points to be covered in this lecture: • Formal and informal vocabulary • Wrting a title page • Describing tables and graphs

  3. WRITING A TITLE PAGE

  4. A Title Page • The title page is presented ahead of the report. • The title page includes: • the title of the report (subtitle is optional) • its recipient • can include company contacts & logo • author, position or affiliation • date (usually month & year)

  5. company logo • title • subtitle • date • author, position

  6. DESCRIBING TABLES AND GRAPHS

  7. Points to be discussed: • Types of tables and figures • Vocabulary used to describe graphs • Sentences used to describe graphs • The language of approximation

  8. Types of tables and figures • Tables • Line graphs • Pie charts • Bar graphs • Flow charts • Organizational charts • A list of tables and figures must be included in the appendix.

  9. Tables

  10. Line Graphs

  11. Bar graphs

  12. Bar graphs

  13. Pie Charts

  14. Pie Charts

  15. Flowcharts

  16. Organizational Charts

  17. Vocabulary used to describe graphs

  18. Sentences used to describe graphs Types of Trend

  19. The Language of Approximation Ordnumbers/statistics similar fractions 1 65 % about two-thirds of 2 28 % just over a quarter of 3 21 % about a fifth of 4 49 % just under a half of 5 74 % almost three – quarters of 6 33.333 % a third of 7 92 % most of 8 98,5 % almost all 9 19.98 % about a fifth of 10 26 % just over a quarter of 11 48.873 % almost a half of 12 74.25 % nearly three - quarters

  20. Ordnumbers/statistics similar fractions 1,043 over a thousand 115 over a hundred 9 fewer than ten 2 a small number 4 a few 6/7 several 749,982 about three-quarters of a million 1,256,890,534 over 1.2 billion 21 101,997 about 100,000 248.112 a quarter of a million 1,695,193 about 1.7 million 24 97 just under a hundred

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