Writing Check: Describing Trends

Writing Check: Describing Trends


Ex 8: Graph A provides information on the changing percentage of new recruits in a company over a 1-year period. According to the figures, recruitment fell significantly during this period. Between 1997 and 2000 there was only a slight drop from 15 to 11 per cent but after that, the figures fell more markedly to a low of 5 per cent.

Chart B shows the average number of working hours per week at the company between 2000 and the present. These figures show a steady increase. In 2000, employees were generally doing a 40-hour week but this figure has now risen to a high of 50 hours per week.

Information relating to the estimate cost of days taken as a sick leave by employees is provided in graph C. Over the same period, these figures have also risen but most significantly in the last three years. From 2000 to 2003, the pattern was stable, with costs being approximately $200,000 but since then the figure has risen dramatically, hitting a peak of $ 1 million in the present year.

Ex 10:
The sale of hamburgers was stable throughout January, February and most of March.
Fewer hamburgers were sold in April than in March according to this graph.
There was a dramatic rise in the sale of hamburgers between June and August, when numbers increased from 1900 to 3000.
Hamburger sales peaked in August when 3000 were sold.
In October sales dropped to their lowest point at 1250.