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1. Task fulfillment
Is description complete and accurate?

Comment [t1]: Describe all

information given as required

Does it focus on general trends and/or major features?

Comment [t2]: Relevant

Accurate comment
Accurate examples

Is there a good implication drawn from what is show

Comment [t3]: Change over time

Increase, decrease, fluctuation
Comment [t4]: Comparisons and
contrasts

2. Coherence and cohesion

3. Vocabulary and sentence structures

Required linguistic styles: formal, technological/factual style
E.g. As you can be seen -> As can be seen, as is seen

Language function
Comparison/contrasts
Vocabulary
A wide range of vocabulary, sophisticatedly used
Wide ranges of sentence structures

Comment [t5]: Not recommendations

Interpretations of presenters invention
Reasons/explanations
Prediction about possible future
development
Comment [t6]: Linking ideas using
words, e.g. connector: however, also, as
is seen
Easy flow of your writing or the ease
with which your writing is read
Comment [t7]: Linking ideas using
grammar: it, they, that. Which, this,
whose
Comment [t8]: Direct and accurate
Objective: no personal ideas/opinions
No I we you

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T1 essay: organizational structure

1. Introduction
The chart

Describes
Compares
Shows
Illustrates
Indicates
Presents information on/about

What, where, when

When:
If no times given: use simple present tense
If time given, use appropriate verb tense accordingly
If time given in footnote, either acknowledge time and use verb tense accordingly, or
ignore time and use simple present tense.

2. Body
Comment on global trends and/or overall features
Global downward trend or an overall decrease/drop
Global upward trend or an overall increase/grow
Global fluctuating trend
Then describe individual trends, following chorological (time) order.
Finish describing trends before addressing features. A contribution would make your job
more complicated.
At least one good example should be given to support your comment.
If overall or total figures available; comment on these first.
Useful languagecai day
Comment on global trend/overall features
A global upward is seen in during the period given.
The given period is witnessed/experienced an overall upward trend in
The global trend is/was recorded for during the period show.
It is immediately apparent that

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The important feature to note is that
To give examples
For example,
For instance
In fact
In deed
In particular/ particularly
Vocabulary:
As (is)

Shown
Seen
Indicated
Described
Illustrated
Presented

In the chart

Dont over use these

Another important point/feature to note is that
Another point worthy of comment is that

3. Conclusion (optional)
In conclusion + summary of main trends/features that have been described.
Or implication (optional)
N.B. Be cautions when giving implications due to limited data available.
Useful language
The chart may well reflect the fact that
There are the signs that
It might be drawn from the chart that
It seems that
It is possible to surmise that
It can be inferred from the chart that
There may be different reasons for the above changes, one of which is (that)
Comparison and Contrast

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Class A has 40 more students than class B (does), 60 students versus/compared
to/against/ 20 students, respectively.
Class B has 40 fewer students than class A (does),
The number of students in class A (triples/ is treble/is threefold/is three times as high as)
that in class B,
The number of class B is one third that in class A,
Class A is three times the size of class B
Class B is one third the size of class A,
There are 40 more students in class A than there are in class B.