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汪艳 1106010328 Tourism English Class 3 11th, Dec, 2013 康佳 1006010308 Tourism English Class 3 11th, Dec, 2013 Table WritingI. The learning objective A. Improve your language proficiency B. Understand the methods of analyzing a table C. Grasp the useful expression of table writingD. Be familiar with the common structure of a table writing E. Improve your observation, analysis and imagination II. The brief introduction of an table writingA. This kind of writing is an information interpretation processB. The information is given with a table and usually explanations are givenC. The tendency or social problem or phenomenon is reflected in the tableIII. The categories of an table writingA. Focus on comparing the data in details to find certain law or tendency 1. Describe the general information of the table 2. Interpret a set of date in details by comparison 3. Draw a conclusion or find out the tendency B. Focus on digging out the causes or effects of certain phenomenon 1. Interpret the general tendency of an issue based on the statistics 2. Analyze the the causes or effects of a phenomenon 3. Give your solutions, suggestions or commentsIV. The steps of writing a composition according to the tables A. Analyze the of the question 1. The genre 2. The tense 3. The number of words 4. The hints of question B. Analyze the table 1. Know the features of a table a. It consists of the title、the box head、the stub and the body b. Information is expressed specifically and accurately in the table c. All the items in the table are arranged according to certain rule 2. Take a glance at the title of the table 3. Analyze the box heading and stub of the table 4. Analyze the data in the table a. Find out the extremum b. The data to calculate c. Use taxonomy to put the similar tendency together 6. Find out the law or the development tendency C Outline 1. Interpret the general tendency of an issue based on the statistics a. Date 1 b. Date 2 c. Date 3 2. Analyze the problem or phenomenon a. Cause 1 or effect 1 b. Cause 2 or effect 2 c. Cause 3 or effect 3 3. Give solutions or suggestions D. Give a brief introduction of the table given by the question 1. Write the topic sentence---Interpret the tendency of an issue Eg: a. As is shown in the table, great changes have been taking place in people’s diet from 1995 to 2000 b. The table reveals that the time students using computers has increased greatly in recent years 2. Choose the date in the table describe the tendency specifically Eg: a. The percentage of grain consumption decreased gradually, from 49 percent in 1986 to 45 per cent in 1990. b. The amount of grain in people's diet has decreased by 4%. However, the amount of milk has increased 3% C. But in 2000, students spent nearly 20 hours per week on the computer. This number was ten times that of 1990 and five times that of 1995 ※ Tips of describing a table a. Choose the data that keep to the point. Don’t list all the data aimlessly b. Control the length of the second paragraph. It should not be longer than the second paragraph c. Choose extremum to find out and support the tendency d. Use taxonomy to describe these items which have the similar characters or development tendency e. Use the form of multiple or balance to describe the change E. Analyze the the causes or effects of a phenomenon 1. Write the topic sentence Eg: a. There are many factors that have stimulated this huge change.　 b. Such changes are mainly caused by two reasons. 2. List the related reasons in details ※ Tips of writing this part a. Concern about the current affairs b. Pay attention to the diversification of your expressions c. Employ some transitional words make your writing more logical F. Conclusion part 1. Solution or Suggestion a. For the individual b. For the public c. For the government 2. Tendency Eg: In short, with the improvement of people's living standards changes in their diet will be greater and more obvious. 3. Your comment Eg:There is sure to be a lot of problems in student use of computer, however.... G。