IELTS Research Reports

The cognitive processes of taking IELTS Academic Writing Task 1China India New Zealand CanadaAgriculture 69% 92% 44% 8%Domestic 9% 5% 46% 12%Industry 22% 3% 10% 80%Water use, selected countries, 2000Below is an example of a think-aloud protocol when doing the task above.(Taken from Li (2006) a MSc dissertation supervised by the lead author at the University of Bristol)… The chart and table above give information about the way in which water was usedin different countries in 2002, 2000. So we have a chart and a table. And then I haveto summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and makecomparisons where relevant. So the tasks are the same. But we have different graphs. One isa pie chart, the other is a table. Now I am looking at the pie chart. The title of the pie chartis World Water Use, 2000. And we have 3 parts, agriculture, domestic and industry. And…ok, and each has different proportions. And then I am looking at the second graph which isa table. It is about water use in selected countries in the year 2000. So we have China, India,New Zealand, and Canada in the agriculture, domestic, industry. Ok. So it seems that there isconnection between these two graphs. One is about the world water use in 3 categories. Theother one is about eh, water use in selecting countries in these 3 areas. Yes. Now we have gota rough picture of what picture like. Now I am trying to find the main features.In the first one, obviously, agriculture took the main proportion, 70%, and then it is industryand then domestic use. In the second graph, I found that in different countries, the proportionof the three categories are different. Like in India, agriculture took about 92% while Canadais only 8%. Now I can compare these figures. But there is much more information in theIELTS Research Reports Volume 11421