report writing course
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Report Writing Course. ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LANGUAGES ADEN 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Points to be covered in this
lecture:
Formal and informal vocabulary
Wrting a title page
Describing tables and graphs
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)
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.
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