WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The charts below give information on UK spending habits for books bought
over the internet.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
The report describes two chart : a line graph and a pie chart. The line graph shows the amount of money spent on books on the internet in the UK over a period of 6 years, from 1997 to 2002. The pie chart illustrates the percentage of books bought online by the four different regions of the UK namely, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
From the line graph, it shows a steady continuous rise in money spent on books bought online over the six years. On a closer analysis, year 1997 to 1998 reveals the fastest rise in money spent in a year, from 11 million pound to 16 million pound,...
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Sentence: Following that, the money spent online continue to increase, at a slower rate over the years.
Description: The fragment online continue to is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace continue with verb, past tense
flaws:
Some duplicate words.
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 10
No. of Words: 249 200
No. of Characters: 1102 1000
No. of Different Words: 111 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.972 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.426 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.183 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 70 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 46 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 27 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 9 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.678 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.308 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.406 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.626 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4