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With few exceptions, the graphic information will come in one of five forms – line graph

Describing Graphic Information or a Process in Language Appropriate to Report Writing. With few exceptions, the graphic information will come in one of five forms – line graph bar graph pie chart table diagram These will be illustrating information contained in your research paper.

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With few exceptions, the graphic information will come in one of five forms – line graph

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  1. Describing Graphic Information or a Process in Language Appropriate to Report Writing. • With few exceptions, the graphic information will come in one of five forms – • line graph • bar graph • pie chart • table • diagram • These will be illustrating information contained in your research paper.

  2. (Masters 2008)

  3. (Masters 2008)

  4. Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions

  5. Selecting Information • Important: • Describe the whole graph fully • Does not mean note every detail • Do not include too much information • Summarise by dividing into its main parts • Describe the trends

  6. Task one: single line graph

  7. Describing Trends

  8. Expressing Movement: Nouns and Verbs • For each trend there are a number of verbs and nouns to express the movement. • Use a verb of change, for example: • Unemployment levels fell • Or we can use a related noun, for example: • There was a fall in unemployment levels

  9. Describing the Movement: Adjectives and Adverbs Giving more information about a trend: • There has been a slight increase in the value of the dollar • (degree of change) • Unemployment fell rapidly last year • (the speed of change) • **Remember: • We modify a noun with an adjective (a slight increase) • and • A verb with an adverb (to increase slightly).

  10. Describing the Degree of Change

  11. Describing the Speed of Change

  12. Expressing Approximation

  13. Describe the information period by period • Graph gives the information in five year sections

  14. Sample Task • ¨first, a gradual increase from 1960 to 1968 • ¨second, a steeper increase from 1968 to 1977 • ¨third, a plateau from 1977 to 1983 • ¨fourth, a drop from 1983 to 1988

  15. Bar Graphs When describing some bar graphs you will sometimes use the same language as the line graphs. This will be the case if one axis of the bar graph gives a time scale. Example 1 In some cases, however, it will not be appropriate to describe the bar graphs in terms of time and different language will need to be used. Example 2

  16. In this graph of Electro Inc’s television sales between 1996 and 1999, we can see that purchases of televisions went up in 1996 and continued to rise steadily until 1998 when they dropped slightly.

  17. Someland was the most popular destination for holiday makers from Indonesia with about one million, followed by Japan which attracted approximately eight hundred thousand holiday makers

  18. Comparing and Contrasting

  19. Adjectives - One syllable • cheap cheaper cheapest • large larger largest • bright brighter brightest Exceptions: • good better best • bad worse worst

  20. Two syllables pretty prettier prettiest happy happier happiest Some comparatives and superlatives: striking more striking most striking clever more clever / cleverer most clever /cleverest

  21. Three or more syllables • attractive more attractive most attractive • profitable more profitable most profitable • expensive more expensive most expensive

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