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Now in this lecture, I'm going to review the process of doing a bar chart.

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The bar chart is a type of graph that appears quite frequently on the aisles writing academic task number

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one.

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And so I'm going to walk you through our four step process of how to do a bar chart.

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So first of all, let's go ahead and review the basic four steps of the writing strategy.

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Of course, number one, we're going to paraphrase the introduction.

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Now, let me say something in terms of paraphrase in the introduction.

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One good idea to get very, very good at paraphrase, an introduction is look at your graphs without

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looking at the summary.

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Don't look at the summary when you want to write, when you want to write an introduction.

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A really good way to practice being able to write an introduction in your own words is to not have the

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summary present.

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Because what happens to a lot of students is they feel like I can't say it any better than the way that

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the person wrote it in the summary.

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So I'm just going to copy their words.

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However, if you practice writing without looking at the summary, it'll train you to be able to use

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synonyms and use your own words to be able to score better when it comes to the introduction.

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After the introduction, we have the general overview and then we have specific detail, paragraph number

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one and specific detail, paragraph number two.

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Right now for each of the upcoming writing samples, I'm going to do line graph.

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Table pie chart.

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Two different charts.

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I'm going to go over the strategy each time because I have some students that skip through and don't

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go all the way through.

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Some students might come directly to to do a two different charts question.

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And so in each one of these lectures, I'm going to repeat the strategy very, very briefly.

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So please be patient with that.

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So in terms of the bar chart, the strategy, in terms of the introduction in general overview, the

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first of all, of course, you're going to look at the bar chart and you're going to basically review

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what information am I going to use for the introduction, what information am I going to use for the

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general overview?

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And then what point am I going to highlight for specific paragraphs one and two?

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That process should take you about 2 minutes.

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You can write the you can write these things you're going to talk about on paper, or you can keep it

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in your head mentally, whichever works for you.

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Now writing your introduction to take you about 2 to 3 minutes, and the general overview should take

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3 minutes maximum.

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So in terms of timing, it looks like we're we're using about 8 minutes to go through these first three

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steps.

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And that's going to leave us a lot of time to write specific, detailed paragraphs, number one and

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two.

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All right.

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So let's go ahead and move forward.

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So when we are first looking at a bar graph or a bar chart, as I said, the first thing I'm going to

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do is decide what information I'm going to use.

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So in terms of my introduction, I see we're talking about division of household tasks by gender in

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Great Britain.

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I see that we have six categories cooking, cleaning, gardening, care, maintenance jobs and clothes

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washing, clothes, washing.

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We're dealing with men and women divided between men and women and minutes per day.

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So I know I'm going to take that information to use it to write my introduction.

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Now, in terms of the general overview, what you want to do is look at, well, for the men, what

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are they doing the most and what are they doing the least?

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Gardening is the most.

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And unsurprisingly, clothes washing is the least.

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And when it comes to females, the cooking, baking and washing up is what they do more than anything

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else.

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And what they do the least are maintenance or odd jobs.

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That's the information that we're going to use to write the general overview.

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And finally, when it comes to specific paragraphs, one and two, I'm going to be looking at I'm going

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to divide it in half.

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Right?

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I'm going to divide it in half.

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So I would probably in the first specific paragraph talk about cooking, cleaning and gardening, comparing

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men and women.

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And then in the second specific paragraph, care, care of own children, maintenance and clothes,

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washing and comparing men and women.

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And that's how we break it down in terms of looking at the bar graph or bar chart and making a decision

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as to what information you're going to use to write.

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So now I'm going to move forward and go ahead and write.

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First, I'm going to write the introduction and general overview.

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The introduction in general overview.

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That's what we're going to get into first.

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And when I'm writing the introduction in general overview, I'm going to go silent while I'm typing

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it out because I'm typing this live.

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And so, you know, I want you to see me actually typing the introduction and the general overview.

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Very often people just show you a finished product, and I think it's really, really helpful for you

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to see it being done and written out word by word.

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That way you can really see how sentence structure is put together, and I think you can learn from

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it a little bit better.

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So now I'm going to go ahead and write the introduction and general overview.

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Okay.

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And here you can read a an introduction and a general overview.

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So the introduction reads, This report derives from a bar chart which illustrates the total time men

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and women spend performing six different chores around the house during the day.

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Right.

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We have a paraphrase of all of the information.

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We put all our details together that gives a basic introduction to what this bar chart is about.

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And then we move down to the general overview, and it reads, Overall, the males prefer gardening

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over any other task and dislike performing clothes washing more than any other task.

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Not only is this point clear, but women utilize the most time for cooking while while maintenance is

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a job, they spend the least amount of time acting on.

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Right there we have our general overview.

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So those are the first two steps.

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Your first two steps are to write a introduction, write an introduction and the general overview.

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And it's not more complicated than that.

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Now, I'm going to go ahead and move into in the next lecture, I'm going to move into writing the specific

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detail paragraphs for paragraph number, paragraph number three and four technically is paragraphs three

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and four, because introduction is paragraph one.

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General overview is paragraph two.

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And then you have specific details.

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Paragraph number one, specific details.

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Paragraph number two.

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All right.

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So.

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Here is the information in a full screen shot for you.

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And this way, this way you can see it.

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And maybe if some of you are struggling to see it very clearly, this is a full screen shot.

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So you can see the introduction and general overview.

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And as I say it next, we're going to move into the specific details paragraphs.

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And I'll talk to you about that in the next lecture.

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Talk to you soon.

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Thanks a lot for joining me.