Now in this lecture, I'm going to review the process of doing a bar chart.
The bar chart is a type of graph that appears quite frequently on the aisles writing academic task number
one.
And so I'm going to walk you through our four step process of how to do a bar chart.
So first of all, let's go ahead and review the basic four steps of the writing strategy.
Of course, number one, we're going to paraphrase the introduction.
Now, let me say something in terms of paraphrase in the introduction.
One good idea to get very, very good at paraphrase, an introduction is look at your graphs without
looking at the summary.
Don't look at the summary when you want to write, when you want to write an introduction.
A really good way to practice being able to write an introduction in your own words is to not have the
summary present.
Because what happens to a lot of students is they feel like I can't say it any better than the way that
the person wrote it in the summary.
So I'm just going to copy their words.
However, if you practice writing without looking at the summary, it'll train you to be able to use
synonyms and use your own words to be able to score better when it comes to the introduction.
After the introduction, we have the general overview and then we have specific detail, paragraph number
one and specific detail, paragraph number two.
Right now for each of the upcoming writing samples, I'm going to do line graph.
Table pie chart.
Two different charts.
I'm going to go over the strategy each time because I have some students that skip through and don't
go all the way through.
Some students might come directly to to do a two different charts question.
And so in each one of these lectures, I'm going to repeat the strategy very, very briefly.
So please be patient with that.
So in terms of the bar chart, the strategy, in terms of the introduction in general overview, the
first of all, of course, you're going to look at the bar chart and you're going to basically review
what information am I going to use for the introduction, what information am I going to use for the
general overview?
And then what point am I going to highlight for specific paragraphs one and two?
That process should take you about 2 minutes.
You can write the you can write these things you're going to talk about on paper, or you can keep it
in your head mentally, whichever works for you.
Now writing your introduction to take you about 2 to 3 minutes, and the general overview should take
3 minutes maximum.
So in terms of timing, it looks like we're we're using about 8 minutes to go through these first three
steps.
And that's going to leave us a lot of time to write specific, detailed paragraphs, number one and
two.
All right.
So let's go ahead and move forward.
So when we are first looking at a bar graph or a bar chart, as I said, the first thing I'm going to
do is decide what information I'm going to use.
So in terms of my introduction, I see we're talking about division of household tasks by gender in
Great Britain.
I see that we have six categories cooking, cleaning, gardening, care, maintenance jobs and clothes
washing, clothes, washing.
We're dealing with men and women divided between men and women and minutes per day.
So I know I'm going to take that information to use it to write my introduction.
Now, in terms of the general overview, what you want to do is look at, well, for the men, what
are they doing the most and what are they doing the least?
Gardening is the most.
And unsurprisingly, clothes washing is the least.
And when it comes to females, the cooking, baking and washing up is what they do more than anything
else.
And what they do the least are maintenance or odd jobs.
That's the information that we're going to use to write the general overview.
And finally, when it comes to specific paragraphs, one and two, I'm going to be looking at I'm going
to divide it in half.
Right?
I'm going to divide it in half.
So I would probably in the first specific paragraph talk about cooking, cleaning and gardening, comparing
men and women.
And then in the second specific paragraph, care, care of own children, maintenance and clothes,
washing and comparing men and women.
And that's how we break it down in terms of looking at the bar graph or bar chart and making a decision
as to what information you're going to use to write.
So now I'm going to move forward and go ahead and write.
First, I'm going to write the introduction and general overview.
The introduction in general overview.
That's what we're going to get into first.
And when I'm writing the introduction in general overview, I'm going to go silent while I'm typing
it out because I'm typing this live.
And so, you know, I want you to see me actually typing the introduction and the general overview.
Very often people just show you a finished product, and I think it's really, really helpful for you
to see it being done and written out word by word.
That way you can really see how sentence structure is put together, and I think you can learn from
it a little bit better.
So now I'm going to go ahead and write the introduction and general overview.
Okay.
And here you can read a an introduction and a general overview.
So the introduction reads, This report derives from a bar chart which illustrates the total time men
and women spend performing six different chores around the house during the day.
Right.
We have a paraphrase of all of the information.
We put all our details together that gives a basic introduction to what this bar chart is about.
And then we move down to the general overview, and it reads, Overall, the males prefer gardening
over any other task and dislike performing clothes washing more than any other task.
Not only is this point clear, but women utilize the most time for cooking while while maintenance is
a job, they spend the least amount of time acting on.
Right there we have our general overview.
So those are the first two steps.
Your first two steps are to write a introduction, write an introduction and the general overview.
And it's not more complicated than that.
Now, I'm going to go ahead and move into in the next lecture, I'm going to move into writing the specific
detail paragraphs for paragraph number, paragraph number three and four technically is paragraphs three
and four, because introduction is paragraph one.
General overview is paragraph two.
And then you have specific details.
Paragraph number one, specific details.
Paragraph number two.
All right.
So.
Here is the information in a full screen shot for you.
And this way, this way you can see it.
And maybe if some of you are struggling to see it very clearly, this is a full screen shot.
So you can see the introduction and general overview.
And as I say it next, we're going to move into the specific details paragraphs.
And I'll talk to you about that in the next lecture.
Talk to you soon.
Thanks a lot for joining me.