Solution 1 - Consumer Spending in Five Different Countries 2002

Author: Bob
Updated Date 17/01/2012 10:00:28
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The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.

Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002.

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kamano - 17/01/2012 10:00:28

The table shows the expenditure for three different categories in five countries: Turkey,Ireland,Sweden,Spain and Italy in 2002.

For the food/drinks/tobacco category, Turkey was the most spending country with the percentage of 32.14%. On the other hand, Sweden was recorded having the lowest consumption with 15.77%.

Next, in the clothing and footwear category, Italy spent with the highest amount of 9.00%, followed by Turkey with 6.63%. Sweden was the least consuming country with 5.40%.

Finally, in the last category which is about leisure and education, Turkey was again the most spending country which had the consumption of 4.35% compared to the total expenditure. Lastly, Spain was cited to have the consumption of 1.98%, therefore was considered as the least spending country in the category.

In summary, Turkish people was mostly spending more in all the categories, especially in the food/drink/tobacco category. The least spending country was Sweden when compared across all the three categories.

Bob - 17/01/2012 11:58:51

Outline

+Introduction: what is the graph about?

+Describe the detail in the first category.

+Describe the detail in the second category.

+Describe the detail in the third category.

+Summarise what the general trend is.

Critique

+TASK ACHIEVEMENT

You were partially able to achieve the task by giving the details of expenditure in the 5 countries in 2002.

+LEXICAL RESOURCE

Vocabulary is very limited with lots of repetition.

+COHERENCE AND COHESION

Paragraphs are unclear, not well organized. You need to improve your skills in using transition words.

+GRAMMATICAL RANGE AND ACCURACY

You should improve your grammar skills because there were many incorrect words.

PERSONAL ADVICE

+Pay more attention to avoid grammatical mistakes such as "various three categories" => "three various categories".

+Wrong usage of "various" since there are only 3 categories.

+Your first sentence doesn't have clear subject/verb distinction.

+Wrong punctuation "It can be clearly seen,that" => "It can be clearly seen that".

+It should be homegeneous in the way you use "%" and "percent". You shouldn't use "32.14%" and "15.77 percent" as written in your original essay.

+"Proportion" refers to the relationship between different things or parts with respect to comparative size, number, or degree. In other words, you must have at least 2 things to compare. Therefore, you can't use it as you wrote in the essay.

+"expender" is not a correct word.

+The way you used linking words such as "in addition" is not appropriate.