The table below show the data collected by a college bookshop for the month of February 1998. Summarise the indication by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.
The table gives information about the usage of different resources in a college bookshop for different type of people in one month in 1998.
It is shown that college students are the most frequent patrons in the book store, accounting for nearly a half of the total 3134 sold books and magazines. Most of their choice was magazines(1249) and 194 non-fiction books and 31 fiction books are bought by them. The second biggest consumer is the book club members who took up over a third of the total sales and their favorite was non-fiction book (942). College staff only bought 405, and most of them was magazines. Public did not buy any fiction books that month while they went for the non-fiction books(122) and magazines(82).
Overall, magazines sold the most that month in the book shop and the college students is their biggest customer.
and 194 non-fiction books and 31 fiction books are bought by them
and 194 non-fiction books and 31 fiction books which are bought by them
Public did not buy any fiction books that month
Public did not buy any fiction books at that month
magazines sold the most
magazines are sold the most
and the college students is their biggest customer.
and the college students are their biggest customers
flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Words: 144 200
Minimum 150 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.0 out of 9
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 7 10
No. of Words: 144 200
No. of Characters: 676 1000
No. of Different Words: 82 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.464 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.694 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.436 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 39 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 32 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 21 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 13 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.395 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.286 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.473 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.666 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 4