IELTS Writing Task 1 Task 1 This line chart illustrates a number of various types of crimes committed in Newport and its changes from 2003 to 2012. The main trend, which is represented on the graph, is downward. In general, the number of various crimes was falling steadily at those times. At the beginning of 2003 the chief incident was burglary (the number of acts was slightly below 3500), the second place took car theft (it was approximately 2800) and the least widespread crime was robbery (about 600 cases). The most significant drop experienced such type of offense as burglary. The number of incidents of burglary reached peak in 2004 with 3600 cases and then decreased to almost 1500 to 2012. The rate of car theft, in contrast, appeared at the same point in 2012 as it was in 2003. However, it was affected by dramatical decrease in 2005 and 2006 from 2600 to 2000 incidents, although, after this drop it continued to rise gradually. Regarding robbery it was the most uncommon type of crime during all the period and experienced only insignificant fluctuations. Ultimately, the trend was generally decreasing and the number of crimes reduced essentially to 2012. Task 1 This graph demonstrates the changes in the number of films that were sold in the certain store since 2002 until 2011. The key trends of the period were gradual fall of popularity of the rentals during all the period, sharp decline of VHS sales and growth of the DVD sales market. For instance, the number of rentals per year reached almost 190000 copies in 2002 but reduced to 50000 in 2011. At the same time, the field of DVD sales grew rapidly from 50000 copies in 2002 to more than 200000 in 2007. However, since 2008 there was an obvious decreasing tendency of this format and in 2011 only 170000 copies of DVD were sold. Quite popular in 2002 VHS completely disappeared from the sale by 2006. Finally, Blu-ray sales slightly progressed since its appearance in 2007 but even in 2011 it was only a statistical minority (about 10000 copies). To sum up, the number of DVD and Blu-ray sales significantly increased during the period under review while the market of VHS and rentals reduced. Could you, please, give me an advice how to improve my writing skills (for one day) and to highlight the mistakes which are the most disasterous in this writing?