Line graph essay

5 steps:
1) Analyse the question
2) Identify the main features
3) Write an introduction
4) Write an overview
5) Write the details paragraphs

Your essay should have 4 paragraphs:
Paragraph 1 – Introduction
Paragraph 2 – Overview
Paragraph 3 – 1st main feature
Paragraph 4 – 2nd main feature

The graph below shows radio and television audiences throughout the day in 1992.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.

Identify the Main Features
What information do the 2 axes give?
What are the units of measurements?
What are the time periods?
What can you learn from the title and any labels?
What is the most obvious trend?
Are there any notable similarities?

Main feature 1: The peak time for TV audiences is in the evening (8 pm).
Main feature 2: The peak time for radio audiences is in the morning (8 am).

Write an Introduction
Question:
The graph below shows radio and television audiences throughout the day in 1992.
Introduction (Paragraph 1):
The line graph illustrates the proportion of people in the UK who watched TV and listened to the radio over 24 hours from October to December 1992.

Write an Overview (Paragraph 2)
Overview (Paragraph 2):
Overall, a significantly greater percentage of the TV audience watched in the evening while radio had the most listeners in the morning. Over the course of each day and night, more people watched TV than listened to the radio.

Write the 1st Detail Paragraph
Here is our first main feature again:
Main feature 1: The peak time for TV audiences is in the evening (8 pm).
Paragraph 3:
Less than 10% of people watched TV between 1 am and 12 noon but at 4 pm this figure increased rapidly, reaching a peak of almost half the population at 8 pm. After this, the graph records a sharp decline in viewers, reaching a low of only a tiny percentage by 3 am.

Write the 2nd Detail Paragraph
For the fourth and final paragraph, you do the same thing for your second key feature.
Main feature 2: The peak time for radio audiences is in the morning (8 am).
Paragraph 4:
Radio, on the other hand, shows a very different trend. The most popular time for listeners to be tuned in was just after 8 am when around 27% of the population was listening. After a brief peak, the numbers dropped steadily to barely 2%, apart from fluctuations at around 4 pm and 10.30 pm. The percentage of listeners remained low overnight before beginning a rapid ascent from 6 am to the 8 am high.