Student's Favorite Activities : Graph or Chart Description

Even Semester 18/19 [WRITING COMPOSITION 2]
Name: Octavian Abdi Esa

Id: 160210103100
Graph or Chart Description
Student's favorite activities*
Hands on
Demonstration
Reading
Discussion
*East Jember’s school district representative on the year of 2016 from total of 250 Biology students
Graph or Chart Description
I. Example of phrases used to describe charts:
 The pie chart is about ...

 The bar chart deals with ...
 The line graph (clearly) shows ...
 The slices of the pie chart compare the ...
 The chart is divided into ... parts.
 It highlights ...
 ... has the largest (number of) ...
 ... has the second largest (number of) ...
 ... is as big as ...
 ... is twice as big as ...
 ... is bigger than ...
 more than ... per cent ...
 only one third ...
 less than half ...
 The number ... increases/goes up/grows by ...
 The number ... decreases/goes down/sinks by ...
 The number ... does not change/remains stable
 I was really surprised/shocked by the ...
 So we can say ...
Or any other expression you could relevantly think of.
Please pay attention on the tenses you used, make sure to read carefully the time signal
expressed in the chart or graph.
II. Structure of chart description

1. Introduction
Here you say (or write) what the diagram is about. Mind the title and don’t forget to
include the source.
2. Message of the chart/diagram
Here you say (or write) the content displayed on the chart. The example of expression
written above (part I) will give you a lot of help in conveying the chart’s content.
3. Conclusion
Here you say (or write) the conclusion of the chart. Remember not to repeat the global
message in the conclusion, the conclusion usually derived from the content not from the
introduction.
III. Example
Student's favorite activities*
12.5%
Hands on
12.5%
Demonstration
50%
Reading
25%
Discussion
*East Jember’s school district representative on the year of 2016 from total of 250 Biology students
Description:
The pie chart is about student’s favorite learning activities. The data was taken from 250 Biology
students of several different schools in east Jember districts. The chart showed that the majority
of students (50% of respondents) choose hands on activities as favorite learning activity. A half
of this majority (25% of respondents) considered a demonstration was best learning method for
their studies. The remaining students divided into 2 exactly same percentage, 12.5% choose
reading and another 12.5% had better learning with discussion. So, we can say that hands on
activities was the most desirable learning activity in the year of 2016 while the least preferred
activities were reading and discussion.
The structure of the description is as follow:
introduction
chart content
conclusion
Now its your turn..!!!!

Scroll down, take a look at these 3 charts example and give them suitable description.
1. A survey held by Program Study of Biology Education in January 2018 resulted in the
chart below.
Most difficult concept in Biology

2%
10% 14%
Morphology
Anatomy
30%
27% Genetics
Microbiology
17% Physiology
Cell Biology
Answer:
The pie chart in above is talking survey about most difficult concept in learning biology. The
data was taken in 2018, from program study of Biology Education. The data or chart showed
shows that the majority of students (30% of respondents) choose physiology to be the most
difficult concept in biology, the next in 27% of respondents student choose genetics as the second
place most difficult concept in biology, then in the third place occupied by microbiology as the most
difficult concept in biology with a percentage of 17%, in fourth and five place is occupied by Anatomy
(14% of respondent) and Biology Cell (10% of respondents) in number five, and the remaining student
choose the Morphology in 12% percentage as the most difficult concept in Biology. So, we can say that
the most difficult biology lessons are physiological (30% percentage) activities in January 2018 at
Program Study of Biology Education, while the easiest activities are morphology (2% percentage).
2. Growth rate differences in a green house resulted from artificial fertilizer
4
length/week (in cm)
3
number of leaves
2
0
Plant #1 Plant #2 Plant #3
Answer:
The chart is talking about the result of differences growth plant rate in the greenhouse from artificial
growth. From the diagram it can be seen that the most fastest growing plants in greenhouse are plants 1
because plant 1 have the highest length/ week (6 cm) and number of leaves (2), in the second place is
plant 3 because the growth of plant 3 is slower than the plants 1 (4 cm length/week), and in the last
position application of artificial fertilizer in greenhouse is plant 2 cause have short growth per week (3
cm/week) and the least number of leaves than others plant in greenhouse. So the result of the
difference growth rate application artificial fertilizer in green house is the most fertile plants are plants
number 1, followed by plants number 3 and plants number 2 by comparing the number of leaves and
high growth per week.
3. Growth rate of microorganism

Answer:
The diagram or chart in above is talking about curve of grow rate microorganism. In the diagram is show
the curve of grow rate microorganism start from lag phase, from the diagram above shows the
development of bacteria starting from the initial phase of the lag phase, followed by the log phase in
this phase the bacteria begin to divide, in the next phase until they can start dividing regularly. When
their growth becomes limited, the cells stop dividing (declining growth phase), until eventually they
show loss of viability (endogenous respiration phase), the chart showing the increasing number of
microorganisms, the amount of food available will decrease, and because microorganisms lack nutrient,
they will die. So we can say that the microorganism have few phase of life, from lag phase
(microorganism start to divide) until the microorganism stop to divide.

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Even Semester 18/19 [WRITING COMPOSITION 2]

Name: Octavian Abdi Esa

Student's favorite activities*

Graph or Chart Description

I. Example of phrases used to describe charts:

 The pie chart is about ...

II. Structure of chart description

Student's favorite activities*

Now its your turn..!!!!

Most difficult concept in Biology

2. Growth rate differences in a green house resulted from artificial fertilizer

3. Growth rate of microorganism

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