Tables & Graphs

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I.  Tables

* Organisation and format of tables
* Writing about tables
o Location
o Links
o Purpose
o Consistency

II.  Illustrations

* Purpose
* Types of illustrations
* Format of illustrations

III.   Appendici

* Format
* Content

Examples

      Table 2.3 Nineteenth century words using -ee

Syntactic Pattern	N=%
Direct Object	54
Object of a Preposition	28
Subject	2
None of these	16

Source: Based on OED I

In order to have a basis for comparison, a survey of nineteenth century formations in -ee was made from the OED 1. This survey was carried out on the basis of the CD ROM version of OED 1, and every work listed in the etymology as having the suffix -ee and with a first citation during the nineteenth century was extracted. There were 100 such words. All the relevant words denoted human beings. The break down of the words collected, in terms of the grammatical patterns they illustrated, is given in Table 2.3. The words which are listed as 'none of these' patterns in Table 2.3 are words such as biographee, where there is no corresponding verb, and loannee, which in terms of current standard British English, looks as ...(Bauer, p. 41).

Table 3 presents the manufacturing processes used by the respondents (percentages add up to more than 100 percent because many companies, approximately 30 percent, reported more than one manufacturing process).

 Table 3: Types of manufacturing processes

Manufacturing Process	Number of Respondents	Percent
Job Shop	60	38%
Batch Production	70	44%
Line Flow (worker paced)	25	16%
Line Flow (machine paced)	29	18%
Continuous Flow	19	12%
Other	1	0.5%

As can be seen from the table, New Zealand manufacturing is preponderantly of the job shop/batch manufacturing type. Since many of the WCM techniques are more suitable for repetitive manufacturing, this table shows that these techniques might have limited application in New Zealand. (Hyde, Basnet, & Foulds, 1995, p. 46) 

Questions:

1.  What is the purpose of tables and illustrations?
2. When should you use an illustration?
3.          How does a paragraph describing a graph differ from a paragraph in an essay?