Editing help about table description "trend"

Topic: The table below highlights data on number of travellers using three major British airports between 1998 and 2003. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table illustrates how the number of commuters using three different British major airports, namely, Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted, varied from 1998 to 20003.

Although the total number of three airports' users all experienced an increasing trend, their patterns were different. While Gatwick airport's users had a steady rise, Heathrow and Stansted witnessed fluctuation and stabilizing respectively in the end half of the period.

The number of Heathrow users started at 27.2 million in 1998, after which it rose significantly, reaching a peak at 48.2 in 2000. Similar changes can be seen in the figures for Gatwick and Stansted, which increased from 36.5 and 17.3 to 44.4 and 39.9 in the first half of the period.

While Heathrow's passengers fluctuated from 2001 to 2003, starting at 37.1 and reaching 45.6 in 2003, the figure for Stansted remained stable at 43.3 over the second half of the period. Opposite changes can be seen in the number of travelers using Gatwick airport, which saw a dramatic increase, surging to the highest point at 69.3 in 2003.

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Try to gain more C+C points in the summary overview section by dividing the thoughts/information into at least 3 sentences. That way you avoid point deductions for writing a run-on sentence, and increase the clarity of your summary statement in the process.


You do not need to place an apostrophe at the end of the word because you are referring to a plural form of the word rather than ownership of the airport.

The other problem in the report is that you are limiting the paragraphs to 2 sentences, which is not an academically acceptable number of sentences for an academic paragraph. You have to write at least 3 sentences for each paragraph to meet this requirement.