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6. The chart below gives useful language to be used in survey reports. Look at the examples of the language used in exercises 2, 3 and 4 to add to the expressions in the chart. Useful language

To introduce

To express facts and proportions

To express generalisations

To conclude/ summarise

Other

- The intention of this report is to examine / assess / evaluate the results of a survey in which...

- This report outlines the results of a survey conducted / carried out to ...

- This survey report contains information …

- The data included in this report was gathered/obtained by means of a questionnaire/ a telephone survey/ a door-to-door

interview

- A significant percentage

- Over one third

- a large/small proportion

-

- On the whole... - Mainly...

- the average person chooses...

- Generally speaking, ...

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- To sum up...

- The results of this survey suggest / demonstrate / reveal...

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7. Analyse the good report in order to say whether these statements about writing a survey report are true or false.

1. Reports are fictional writing. __________

2. Survey reports can be written only in formal style. __________

3. Survey reports include only generalizations. __________

4. Survey reports should have a heading and subheadings. __________

5. Passive Voice is not normally used in formal style. __________

6. Impersonal language is used in formal style. __________

7. When the results of a survey are reported, the figures gathered can be recorded in the form of percentages (16%) or proportions (six out of ten, a quarter). __________

8. Precise percentages (23%) are more likely to hold the readers' attention than less accurate expressions (the majority, a minority, the largest proportion etc.) __________

9. Short forms are acceptable in a report. __________

10. While reporting the answers of respondents such reporting verbs as claim, refuse, mention should not be used. __________

11. Insignificant details cannot be used in a report. __________

8. Look at the survey ‘Handgun control in the USA’ conducted by Gallup in 1986. Write a survey report describing some of the information it contains, and giving some possible explanation for the data.

HANDGUN CONTROL

Should laws covering the sale of handguns be made stricter, less strict or kept as they are now? (Gallup)

1975

1980

1981

1983

1986

Stricter

69%

59%

65%

59%

60%

Less strict

3

6

3

4

8

Kept same

24

29

30

31

30

Some countries have passed laws banning the sale and possession of handguns. Would you favour or oppose having such a law in your community? (Gallup)

4/86

All

Men

Women

Whites

Blacks

Favour

47%

39%

55%

45%

59%

Oppose

47

57

38

49

34

/ from America in Close-up. Eckhard Fielder, Reimer Jansen, Mil Norman-Risch/

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