The two pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in Canada in 2005 and 2010.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The two pie charts compare the online shopping sales of four categories namely the 'Electronics and Appliance', 'Home Furnishings', 'Video Games' and 'Food & Beverage' from 2005 to 2010 in Canada.
Overall, it can be seen that while the proportion of 'Electronics and Appliance' and 'Home Furnishings' dropped, 'Video Games' and 'Food & Beverage' ballooned markedly in the given period in the question.
In terms of 'Electronics and Appliance' which stood at 35% in 2005, it slid to exactly a third (33%) of the total in 2010, despite being the top most product in the beginning. On the other hand, there was a considerable shrink in the sales rate to 15% from a quarter (25%) regarding the Home Furnishings.
Turning to Video Games at 18% in 2005, making it the least popular item, but it ranked third in the final year with 23%. In 2005, even though 'Food and Beverage' came second last in the list, 2010 witnessed a substantial swell to nearly one third (32%). Surprisingly, this item was most favourite among consumers in 2010.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 7 10
No. of Words: 174 200
No. of Characters: 799 1000
No. of Different Words: 101 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.632 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.592 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.589 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 46 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 35 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 26 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 20 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.16 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.47 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.75 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, regarding, second, third, well, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 33.7804878049 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.97073170732 126% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 839.0 965.302439024 87% => OK
No of words: 174.0 196.424390244 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82183908046 4.92477711251 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63192868298 3.73543355544 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65544014149 2.65546596893 100% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 106.607317073 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614942528736 0.547539520022 112% => OK
syllable_count: 242.1 283.868780488 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.33902439024 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1450362633 43.030603864 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.857142857 112.824112599 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 22.9334400587 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.71428571429 5.23603664747 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.13902439024 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146608171499 0.215688989381 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.066532595643 0.103423049105 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0752692776558 0.0843802449381 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0952610244823 0.15604864568 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0915965536901 0.0819641961636 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.2329268293 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 61.2550243902 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 11.4140731707 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.06136585366 104% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 40.7170731707 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.4329268293 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.0658536585 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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