The chart shows student expenditure over a three-year period in the United Kingdom. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. You should write at least 150 words.

The chart shows the changes which took place in student spending in the United Kingdopom during the three year period from 1996 to 1999.
Students spend 3% less on accomodation, which fell from 23% to 20% of total expinditure and there was 2% decrease in spending on food, bills and household goods, which fell rom 20% to 18%.
At the same time course expenditure went-down by 3% from 10% to 7% / Children, who constituted 1% of students' expenditure in 1996, are not represented in 1999.
On the other hand, there was a 5% growth in spending on entertainment, which stood at 26% of total expenditure in 1996 but rose to 31% in 1999. Spending on other non-essential items and credit repayments grew by 4% to make up 16% of total expenditure. Spending on essential travel went up by 3% while non-essential travel underwent a 1% fall.
Overall, with the exception of expenditure on travel, the most significant general change was a shift from spending on essential items to spending on non-essential items.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 90, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ing on entertainment, which stood at 26% of total expenditure in 1996 but rose to...
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Line 5, column 10, Rule ID: WITH_THE_EXCEPTION_OF[1]
Message: Use simply 'except' or 'except for'
Suggestion: except; except for
...l travel underwent a 1% fall. Overall, with the exception of expenditure on travel, the most signifi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, while, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.15609756098 158% => OK
Pronoun: 0.0 5.60731707317 0% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 33.7804878049 127% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 835.0 965.302439024 87% => OK
No of words: 172.0 196.424390244 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85465116279 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62144681703 3.73543355544 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98130318248 2.65546596893 112% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 106.607317073 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56976744186 0.547539520022 104% => OK
syllable_count: 232.2 283.868780488 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
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: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.9776707809 43.030603864 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.285714286 112.824112599 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5714285714 22.9334400587 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 5.23603664747 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 3.83414634146 130% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0954442413971 0.215688989381 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0543798079102 0.103423049105 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654290751396 0.0843802449381 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0710640762272 0.15604864568 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0685718173485 0.0819641961636 84% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.2329268293 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 72.5 61.2550243902 118% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.51609756098 172% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.3012195122 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 11.4140731707 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 32.0 40.7170731707 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.4329268293 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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