Analytical Paragraph- Check your Writing

Introducing your analysis

• Overall

• The graph illustrates that

• However

Summarising the main trend

• Overall

• remains steady

• increases

Expressing a contrast

• A downward trend

• In Contrast

• Decrease

Talking about numbers going up

• stabilised

• An upward trend

• sharp fall

Talking about numbers staying the same

• A drop

• An increase

• stabilised