1 Writing an introduction

Using linking expressions more skillfully

Linking expressions are often used at the beginning of a sentence. Good writers, however, use linking expressions more skilfully.

Some linking words can go after the subject of the sentence. If you do this, you must put a comma before and after the word. For example:
The majority of men preferred black cars. Women, however, did not show this tendency.
In every region, sales rose after an advertising campaign. Sales, therefore, showed an increase related to advertising.
This structure, with the linking word after the subject, highlights the subject, making it the focus of the sentence.





Planning the report
Write the introduction, body and conclusion.
Table 1

Introduction
1. the percentage of people in two different cities without health insurance from 1981 to 2005
2. The cities shown: Boston and Seattle
Body
3. 1981: both cities, the same percentage of people who were uninsured, over 20%
4. a few years later, both cities, increase in that percentage
5. Seattle: a steeper rise
6. Boston: start falling, and then start rising again around 1990
7. around 1994: Boston's percentage starts decreasing until 2005
8. Seattle: initial rise in the percentage of uninsured, the percentage goes downward until the year 2005
Overview
9. the percentage of people in both cities without health insurance: start off the same in 1981
10. Boston's percentage in 2005: quite a bit lower than in 1981 Seattle's percentage: only a tiny bit lower.


(Table 2)
The graph below shows electricity production (in terawatt hours) in France between 1980 and 2012.

4 paragraph


1. Introduction