Statistics in professional writing is confusing to writers and readers. Specifically, massive statistics in the text make it difficult to read and understand. Even, readers generally ignore these sections of the documents. Fortunately, there are a few rules and tricks, which can be followed to make the numbers fit perfectly into the text. These bits of advice and rules facilitate the work of the writer and the reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This problem can be divided into two types. The first deals with people and things and the second deals with the measurement and result in the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first thing we need to focus on is that can we write the statistics (numbers) in one or two words. For example, two (one word), twenty-five (two words) and sixty-three (two words). So, in such cases, we will write it in words instead of writing it in numbers. However, if the numbers cannot be covered in two words and take three or more words, in such a situation we will use numbers instead of words. For example, one hundred and twenty-five requires more than two words therefore, we will simply write 125 in numbers. Here are examples for both of the categories<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThere are 125 laptops in the shop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\nAbout 1300 people participated in this study.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\nI have two cars.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\nThere are twenty five cars at workshop<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
If there are massive statistics in the text then the above rule will be ignored and all of the statistics will be written in numbers. Here is an example<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe average attendance of learners whose parents attended the meeting increased as 48, 58, 49, 57, 59, 64, 65, 65 and 65 respectively while the learners whose parents did not attend the meeting run as 22, 27, 16, 31, 29, 26, 27, 28 and 28 respectively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In the example above, most statistics can be written in one or two words. However, all this is written in numbers. Think for a second, if all these numbers were written in words, no one would understand the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n