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The document provides guidance on writing summaries for the IELTS exam. It discusses writing a 150-word summary in response to a graph, table, or chart. Examples are given of summarizing a pie chart showing university graduates' career paths and a line graph showing museum visitors from 1980-2015. Key features to report include percentages or numbers, comparisons, trends over time such as increases and decreases. The summary should select the main points while describing data and identifying trends in a factual, objective manner.

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The Pie Chart Below Shows The Proportions of Graduates From Brighton University in 2019 Entering Different Employment Sectors

The document provides guidance on writing summaries for the IELTS exam. It discusses writing a 150-word summary in response to a graph, table, or chart. Examples are given of summarizing a pie chart showing university graduates' career paths and a line graph showing museum visitors from 1980-2015. Key features to report include percentages or numbers, comparisons, trends over time such as increases and decreases. The summary should select the main points while describing data and identifying trends in a factual, objective manner.

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Lesson 2: COMPOSITION AND WRITING Part 2

Composing the Report or Technical Report Writing


Task 1 of English proficiency writing test (IELTS) for professionals is composing a report.
The Writing Task 1 of the IELTS Academic test requires you to write a summary of at least 150 words in
response to a particular graph (bar, line or pie graph), table, chart, or process (how something works, how
something is done). This task tests your ability to select and report the main features, to describe and compare
data, identify significance and trends in factual information, or describe a process.
Reference: https:// www.ielts-exam.net/academic
The illustrations used in technical report writing are diagram, line graph, bar graph, pie graph, map. Construct at
least two sentences for the introduction. Always refer to the illustration by writing in the introduction:
The First sentence:
The (describe what kind of illustration is given) shows about the ( write the title of the report )
Paraphrase by using synonyms. This is usually study,
research or survey.

The Second sentence:


This looks like an advanced conclusion for it describes the most striking trend or highlights of the data.
The Body of the Report.
The description of data inside a pie graph lacks dynamics in the sense that there is no movement or active trends
such as increasing vs decreasing, ascending vs descending and many more which could be found in the line
graphs and bar graphs.
The obvious interplay of data in the pie graph is best expressed in the magnitude and sizes of figures where
quantities are compared and contrasted rather than interacting like in the case of numbers in the line and bar
graphs.
Other figures similar to pie graph are tables.
The same number of sentences is used in the paragraph under this writing task. There are four up to the
maximum of five sentences. This type of writing, unlike the case of essays, is objective, meaning , the writer’s
point of view is not solicited. All the things the writer describes are coming from his observation and analysis of
the values. In the body of report, one paragraph is enough.
To better understand, take a closer look at the three examples given below and see the model answers to the
sample topics.
Example of report topic using a pie graph: Note its difference from line graph but its similarity with the
diagram in terms of data presentation

The pie chart below shows the proportions of graduates from Brighton University in 2019 entering different
employment sectors.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where
relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

Model answer
The pie chart illustrates the career choices of Brighton University's 2019 graduates, giving the percentages who
worked in each of various sectors after finishing university. Overwhelmingly, industry and government were the
most popular choices.

Just under half the students went into industry, with service industries attracting more Brighton graduates than
any other sector by far — almost a third (33.0%). About half that number (16.3%) took jobs in manufacturing.

Politics and public service were the next most popular choice, accounting for nearly a fifth of graduates. Just
over 12% went into politics and a further 5.6% chose the civil service. The other significant career choices were
education (about 15%) and two others: transportation and warehousing, with 7.8%; and science and technology
with 7.3%.
The least popular choices included work in the charitable sector and careers in sport, both of which were chosen
by well under 1% of graduates. Finally, 2.8% entered work in other, unspecified, sectors. (Total = 155 words)

Example of report topic using a line graph: Note the presence of trends like increasing, decreasing,
ascending, descending, stabilizing
The graph shows the number of visitors to four international museums between 1980 and 2015.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where
relevant.
Model answer
The line graph shows how many people visited four museums in different countries in the world between 1980
and 2015.

All in all, the Louvre Museum was the most popular, with between approximately 8 and 9 million visitors each
year. The least popular were the Shenzhen and the London Science Museum, with no more than 4 million
visitors each year.

The number of visitors to the London Science Museum decreased slowly from just over 4 million in 1980 to
around 2 million in 2015. By contrast, the visitors to the Vatican Museum increased from just under 5 million
in 1980 to around 9 million in 2015.

In addition, the number of visitors to the Shenzhen Museum stayed about the same over the thirty-five-year
period. They fell from just under 4 million in 1980 to just over 3 million in 2000 and then rose to just under 4
million again in 2015. (151 words)
The writer describes the trends that are taking place among the elements such as increasing, decreasing, rose to,
and remaining constant.

Summary of the Lesson


Since communication is an inevitable part of human existence, we need to hone our skills to make effective
compositions to enable us to be heard, and make influence to the readers of our writing works.

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