The table and bar chart below show the survey data of how and where 1600 Australian students used computers. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table and bar chart below show the survey data of how and where 1600 Australian students used computers.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The table and chart illustrate how and where 1600
students
in Australia used
computers
from 2001 to 2002. By and large, it is evident that there was a considerable increase in the usage of online facilities and the
Internet
for assignment submissions, and
students
mostly used their
computers
at home. In 2001, 1038
students
, accounting for 65 per cent of the total number of 1600
students
participating in the survey, used online facilities.
However
, only 20 per cent used the
internet
to hand in their work. By 2002, the number of people utilizing the
internet
skyrocketed to 96 per cent
while
the figure for those submitting their work via the
Internet
experienced an almost five-fold growth to 1568
students
. As can be seen from the bar chart, there was a dramatic rise in the number of
students
using their
computers
at home, from 800 in 2001 to more than 1200 in 2002.
In contrast
, the usage of
computers
at university experienced a slight decline to 350,
while
the figure for those who did not possess a computer plummeted from just under 400 to only around 50 in 2002.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words students, computers, internet with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "chart" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.

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