Analytical Paragraph
Analytical Paragraph
Analytical Paragraph
Writing Section
Analytical Paragraph
To report an increase
Has risen/increased/gone up/shot up…
Has experienced/seen a rise/an increase in…
Has shown/registered a rise/an increase…
Has reached a maximum/a peak of…
To report a decrease
Has fallen/gone down/come down to…
Has dropped from......… to .......…
Has experienced/registered/shown a fall/a decrease/a decline in….
Has hit/touched/reached its lowest/minimum level/point...
To report differences
Is better than/more than double/half as much/three times more/less
than....
Not as big as/as much as/as large as...
Many times over/more/less...
SOME USEFUL EXPRESSIONS FOR WRITING
AN ANALYTICAL PARAGRAPH
To report similarity
Is the same as/similar to...
Is/Are comparable with...
Can be grouped together/classified together/clubbed with...
Show(s) similarity/similarities...
There are striking similarities between...
To report comparisons and contrast
As compared to…
In (sharp) contrast to/with…
Is comparable/not comparable with…
Compares well with./Contrasts with…
To report constancy or no change
Has seen/registered/experienced/shown no change...
Has remained constant/unchanged/the same...
Given below are the results of a phone survey of a group of 1000 students
aged 13-16 carried out by an education company to find out how effective
online classes are. Study the data carefully and then write an analytical
paragraph to summarise the information. Make comparisons wherever
appropriate and draw your own conclusions.
SOLUTION
Then there are those who do not take the online classes
seriously. Fortunately, this group constitutes only 7% of the
survey population. They make mischief and disturb the
class by writing funny things on their teachers' white
board. While 15% of all the respondents said they play
games on their digital devices while their online classes
are in progress, an equal number of students admitted they
do not study textbooks or do assignments on their own
after the classes. Clearly, a lot needs to be done to ensure
student compliance before online classes become truly
effective.
2.PROBLEM AND SOLUTION BASED
You are the General Manager of a restaurant. You have noticed that the cost
of seafood items has gone up in recent times and this has overshot the
budgets of raw materials procurement. Your supplier explains that the
supply chain of seafood items is adversely affected due to bad weather and a
disruption in transport due to a strike, and consequently the prices of
seafood items have gone up.
Write an analytical paragraph briefly describing how the cost of procuring
seafood items has overshot the procurement budget of the restaurant and
suggesting a solution to the problem in consultation with the restaurant
chef and sales and marketing manager such that the seafood continues to
be on the menu but the restaurant does not incur any losses or lose valuable
customers to the competition. You might also like to introduce a new menu
with attractive alternatives to seafood.
SOLUTION
The restaurant is finding it increasingly difficult these days to serve its patrons a
range of seafood items like prawns, shrimps, crabs, lobsters, oysters and tuna fish.
While this may have left many of our customers disappointed, the restaurant is
unable to please them by overshooting its monthly budgets of raw materials for
sea-food dishes. Our vendor Messrs Bombay Seafood Suppliers have expressed
their inability to provide these items at the existing rates owing to the disruption
caused in their procurement due to inclement weather and a transport strike. Faced
with this predicament, the restaurant has the following options – one, increase the
prices of sea-food based dishes; two, offer smaller portions to save on raw
materials; and three, take away our customer's interest in sea- food by introducing a
fortnight long food festival with a new menu of non-vegetarian items based on
chicken, mutton, lamb and fresh water fish and eggs as well as a whole new range
of Indian and Chinese vegetarian menu, including regular South Indian delicacies.
This will not only help the restaurant save on its raw materials supply expenses
but also keep our customers happy with a variety of alternative food menu. This
matter was discussed with the Chief Chef as well as the Food and Beverages
Manager, who are aligned to the proposal spelt out above. Subject to the
management approval, the new food festival can go live next weekend.
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THANK YOU
Remember:-
• Write one sample analytical paragraph daily
for practice.
• Maintain good writing along with the
presentation.
• Maintain your notebooks.