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Thursday 30 May 2013

READING THE GRAPHS

 PRACTICE 2
Using Statistics


                                            World’s Major Consumers of Primary  Energy
    According to statistics published by the U.S. Department of Energy, the world’s consumption of primary energy continued to increase in 1994 in quadrillion Btu’s. The three top consumers included the United State, China, and Russia. However, the largest consumer was United States. It used 85.64 quadrillion Btu. Japan consumed 20.7 quadrillion Btu, whereas Germany consumed 13.87 quadrillion Btu. The countries that consumed less than 10 quadrillion Btu included India , United Kingdom , Franca , and Italy.


WRITING PRACTICE
Statistics

1.                                      People’s Attention on Credit Cards Debt in USA
            According to graphs result of a USA Today survey of 2,300 readers, the people’s attention about the amount of debt on credit cards is influenced by their aged. This survey divided the age of the reader into 4 age type; under 30, between 30-45, 46-60, and over 60, and gave three choices of answer to the reader included; yes, no, and somewhat. People in over 60 age type are the highest amount who mostly concerned about the amount of their credit cards debt with the result 81%  “yes”, 13%  “no”, and 6%  “somewhat”. People in 46-60 age type have the second position with 62% “yes”, 30%  “no”, and 8%  “somewhat”, whereas people in 30-45 age type who said “yes” and “no” have the same amount 43% and 14% answered “somewhat”. The last position is under 30 age type, 32%  “yes”, 55%  “no”, and 13% with “somewhat”. According to this survey, younger people in USA will have less attention on their credit cards debt.






2. People’s Awareness of All Credit Card Bills Payment Every Month in
        USA
       According to graphs result of a USA Today survey of 2,300 readers, the people’s awareness of all credit card bills payment every month in USA is influenced by their aged. This survey divided the age of the reader into 4 age type; under 30, between 30-45, 46-60, and over 60, and gave two choices of answer to the reader included; yes and no. People in over 60 age type are the smallest amount who pay the credit card bill every month, with the result only 13% said “yes” and 87% “no”. People in 46-60 age have 32% said “yes” and 68% said “no”, whereas people in 30-45 age type 51% said “yes” and 49% said “no”. The first position is under 30 age type, 59% of them said “yes” and 41% said “no”. According to this survey, younger people in USA will have the most awareness of all credit card bills payment every month.


#ACADEMIC WRITING, FIRST MEETING page 78 – 79.

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