The table below shows the sales at a small restaurant in a downtown business district.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Model Answer 1:
The sales at this small restaurant during the week of October 7 to 13th followed a fairly set pattern from Monday to Friday, and then showed notable shift on the weekend. The lunch and dinner sales during the week peaked on Friday and then dipper down as the weekend set in.
During the week of October 7-14th, the lunch sales averaged at approximately $2,400. The highest lunch sales occurred on Friday, and the lowest occurred on Sunday. Sunday's lunch sales were approximately $1,000 less than the average lunch sales during the rest of the week.
Dinner sales, which generated at least $1,000 to $1,500 more a day than lunch sales, also remained steady during the week. Just like the lunch sales, the dinner sales peak on Friday and dipped down for the weekend.
Excluding Wednesday and Thursday, the lunch and dinner sales from October 7-11 rose gradually until the end of the business week. Midweek, on Wednesday and Thursday, the sales were slightly lower than they were on Tuesday.
According to the sales report, this restaurant has a steady lunch and dinner crowd. The most profitable day during the second week of October was Friday. Sunday, was the least profitable day, with the full day's sales totaling less than the Friday dinner sales. These numbers are reflective of a restaurant that is located in a business/financial district where business hours are Monday through Friday.
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flaws:
Sentence Length SD: 4.953 7.5
No. of Words: 235 200
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 10
No. of Words: 235 200
No. of Characters: 1127 1000
No. of Different Words: 105 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.915 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.796 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.208 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 79 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 45 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 29 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 15 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.953 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.308 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.481 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.699 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.21 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4