10th std - Analytical Paragraph

 Analytical Paragraph

Tips for writing Analytical Paragraph

For INTRODUCTION, you can start with the following phrases:

The chart given above describes/states...

The table suggests that....

The line graph shows/demonstrate that....

The data given above provides sufficient information about....

The pie chart illustrates that.... etc.

For describing TRENDS, use phrases and words like- a pattern of growth, rapidly doubled, skyrocketed, striking increase, peaked high, soaring rates, declined, plummeted, leveled off, stagnated, fluctuate, starting to rise, starting to fall, drop down, slight increase, etc.

For describing QUANTITIES, use various styles like- 48% of or approximately half of it, one-third of, nearly one-fourth of, almost 80%, majority, on average, twice as much, almost equal, the highest, the lowest, very close to 2%, roughly, approximately 5% of, just under three percent, etc.

For establishing a RELATIONSHIP OR CONTRAST, use phrases and words like- relationship between, similarly, in contrast with, in comparison to, but in the opposite case, however, whereas, when it comes to, as opposed to, while, striking difference, noticeable difference, etc.

For the CONCLUSION and other connecting phrases use- conclusively, overall, subsequently, in totality, in a nutshell, for the chart given, in short we can say that, striking changes, therefore, etc.

Question. The chart shows the division of household tasks by gender in Great Britain. Write an analytical paragraph describing the chart given in not more than 200 words.

Answer.

The aforementioned chart illustrates the number of minutes per day spent by British men and women in doing household tasks. On an average, the women spend about four hours doing household tasks whereas the men spend less than two and half hours.

The tasks on which women spend more time than men include cooking, cleaning house, taking care of the children and laundry. In doing all these tasks, women spend approximately 200 minutes which is almost three times the time spent by men in these tasks. On the other hand, men spend twice the time than women in doing tasks like gardening and maintenance of odd jobs in the house. Men spend the highest time, almost 50 minutes, in gardening and petcare. While the women spend only 30 minutes for these tasks. The time spent by men in washing, ironing and sewing clothes is as low as 2 minutes per day as opposed to 25 minutes spent by women.

Conclusively, we can say that women spend far more time doing household chores than men while men prefer to do gardening, petcare and maintaining odd jobs.