In last week's lesson I gave some tips about how to write a good overview to summarise the information shown on a graph, chart or diagram. Let's look at an example overview of the graph below.
My review:
Total car ownership in Britain has increased between 1971 and 2007. In particular, the number of households with two cars Rose, while the number of households without a car.
Analysis:
Note that I didn't include any specific figures. Save the details for later.
The first sentence describes the "big picture". The first thing I did was look at all 4 lines and the entire period. I noticed that there is a general trend to people having more cars (the word "ownership" came from). Most students tend to ignore this kind of general observation.
In the second sentence highlights the major changes for the entire period. With these 2 sentences I definitely summarizes the main features of the graph.
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