The chart below show the percentage of of five kinds of book sold by a bookseller between 1972 and 2012. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The three given pie charts compare the popularity of five different genres of books according to the sales of a bookseller from 1972 to 2012.
Overall, the figures for adult and children’s fiction witnessed upward trends while the remaining genres declined dramatically. Due to these changes, other categories of books lost their dominant position to adults’ book at the end of the period.
Looking first at adult fiction, the figure for this genre slightly increased by 5% in sales in the next two decades and then reached an all-time peak of 45% in 2012. An increase in the sales of children's books was also recorded, but less pronounced, from 20% in 1972 to 25% in 2012.
On the other hand, biography and other genres of books share the same descending pattern in the 40-year period, with drops of 12% and 13% in sales respectively. As for travel books, they gained the least popularity in 1972, but outnumbered biography in 1992 before its figure remarkably fell in the next years and ended up at 10% in 2012.
- Public libraries should only provide books and should not waste their limited resources on expensive high-tech media such as software, videos or DVDs. Do you agree or disagree? 78
- Traffic and housing problems in major cities can be solved by moving large companies, factories and their employees to the countryside. To what extent do you agree or disagree? 61
- When designing a building, the most important factor is intended use of the building rather than its outward appearance. To what extent do you agree or disagree ? 61
- Some believe that lot of scientific research is a waste of time and money. To what extent do you agree or disagree? 11
- Research shows that business meetings, discussions and training are happening online nowadays. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? 78
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, so, then, while, as for, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 1.0 7.0 14% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 0.0 3.15609756098 0% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 33.7804878049 107% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 859.0 965.302439024 89% => OK
No of words: 176.0 196.424390244 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88068181818 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69262436693 2.65546596893 101% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 106.607317073 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619318181818 0.547539520022 113% => OK
syllable_count: 244.8 283.868780488 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 22.4926829268 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 21.2430060519 43.030603864 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 122.714285714 112.824112599 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1428571429 22.9334400587 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 5.23603664747 191% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.118191422648 0.215688989381 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0618176345309 0.103423049105 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0598081767065 0.0843802449381 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0867482290282 0.15604864568 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.062233865979 0.0819641961636 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.2329268293 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 61.2550243902 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.3012195122 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 11.4140731707 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.06136585366 106% => OK
difficult_words: 41.0 40.7170731707 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.9970731707 109% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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