Report Writing Course

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENTFACULTY OF LANGUAGESADEN UNIVERSITY

Lecture 1

Points to be covered in this

lecture:

Formal and informal vocabulary

Wrting a title page

Describing tables and graphs

WRITING A TITLE PAGE

A Title Page

• The title page is presented ahead of the report.

• The title page includes:

the title of the report (subtitle is optional)

its recipient

can include company contacts & logo

author, position or affiliation

date (usually month & year)

title

author, position

date

company logo

subtitle

DESCRIBING TABLES AND GRAPHS

Points to be discussed:

Types of tables and figures

Vocabulary used to describe graphs

Sentences used to describe graphs

The language of approximation

Types of tables and figures

• Tables

• Line graphs

• Pie charts

• Bar graphs

• Flow charts

• Organizational charts

A list of tables and figures must be included in the appendix.

Tables

Line Graphs

Bar graphs

Bar graphs

Pie Charts

Pie Charts

Flowcharts

Organizational Charts

Vocabulary used to describe graphs

Types of TrendSentences used to describe graphs

Ord numbers/statistics similar fractions

1 65 % about two-thirds of 2 28 % just over a quarter of 3 21 % about a fifth of 4 49 % just under a half of 5 74 % almost three – quarters of 6 33.333 % a third of7 92 % most of 8 98,5 % almost all 9 19.98 % about a fifth of 10 26 % just over a quarter of 11 48.873 % almost a half of 12 74.25 % nearly three - quarters

The Language of Approximation

Ord numbers/statistics similar fractions

13 1,043 over a thousand 14 115 over a hundred 15 9 fewer than ten 16 2 a small number 17 4 a few 18 6/7 several 19 749,982 about three-quarters of a

million 20 1,256,890,534 over 1.2 billion 21 101,997 about 100,000 22 248.112 a quarter of a million 23 1,695,193 about 1.7 million 24 97 just under a hundred