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Step 2: Compose your answer

Move 2: Think of a statement that highlights important information you can glean from the data (an overview)

Overviews are statements that show your ability to spot trends or regularities in the data displayed or statements that show your ability to distinguish between more important findings from less important ones. Overviews show your ability to make claims about the findings.

Good overview statement do not simply repeat all the details of the data in words. You need not mention all the information given in the graph/table/chart. Also, restrict your claims only to findings given in the data.

The following phrases could be used to introduce your overview:

Linking as-clause	Preposition	Location	Statement that generalises details of the data shown/present the most important trend/findings
As can be seen	in	Table 1, Figure 1,	majority of the… almost half of the total… less than… almost x percent of…
As shown	in	Table 1, Figure 1,
As revealed	by	the graph,
As can be seen	in	comparison of the two tables,
Linking words		verb
Based on the data/findings/results		displayed, given, summarized, illustrated, shown,

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