Task 1.
The table below shows the consumer durables (telephone, refrigerator, etc.) owned in
Britain from 1972 to 1983. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.
Data describing the consumer long-lasting products from 1972 to 1983 was surveyed in Britain. This research involved eight products which were used in households.
According to the table, only was television recorded more than 90% and less than 100% during this period. This indicated that television became an inseparable technology for most people in Britain. Different from former one, there was a slight rise occurring in vacuum cleaner, washing machine, and dishwasher. For vacuum cleaner, there was no data shown on the table in 1983, whereas data recording dishwasher started in 1978. In add...
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No. of Words: 164 200
Number of Paragraphs: 3 4
Better to put one more paragraph for conclusion: what did you get from the table or chart?
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 6.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 9
No. of Words: 164 200
No. of Characters: 837 900
No. of Different Words: 106 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.579 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.104 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.789 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 61 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 51 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 36 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 14.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 3.728 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.364 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.545 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.062 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 4