You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The graph below shows the writing technology used by undergraduate students to prepare assignments at a university in 1970, 1982 and 1994.
Summarise the information presented in this graph by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
The bar chart compares proportion of assignments prepared by four writing devices which university students utilized to finish their essays from 1970 to 1994, measured in percentage.
It is clear that ball point pens were used the most by bachelor students between 1970 to 1982, but computers become the most chosen devices in 1994. In addition, ball point and fountain pens saw the biggest fall in preference over 24-year period
In 1970, ball point pens were the most preferred close to 50 per cent, whereas no figure of computers was recorded. Over the following 24 years, however, ball point pens’ picked data fell by approximately 40 per cent, while computers’ option saw a significant rise by five to four per cent of that for ball point pens. By 1994, computers had become the most preferable techonology with figure reaching 50 per cent.
The other two chosen devices between 1982 to 1994 were fountain pens and typewriters. In 1970, these devices were used around 38 per cent and 12 per cent respectively, however, typewriter took over the another in 1982 with 40 per cent and 5 per cent respectively and remained those figures in the next 12 years.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, whereas, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.0 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 33.7804878049 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 983.0 965.302439024 102% => OK
No of words: 197.0 196.424390244 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98984771574 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74642080493 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67409124714 2.65546596893 101% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 106.607317073 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56345177665 0.547539520022 103% => OK
syllable_count: 280.8 283.868780488 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 22.4926829268 124% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.692244718 43.030603864 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.428571429 112.824112599 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1428571429 22.9334400587 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 5.23603664747 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.083929568572 0.215688989381 39% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0549761065448 0.103423049105 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0504123784357 0.0843802449381 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0730997648517 0.15604864568 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0492076361061 0.0819641961636 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.2329268293 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 61.2550243902 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 10.3012195122 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 11.4140731707 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.06136585366 100% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 40.7170731707 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.9970731707 120% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.