📈 A glimpse of my IELTS Writing class today 📈

Another example of an inconsistency. Can you notice it?

🗒 "The largest number of graduate students continued their studies (29,665). This number is almost twice as high as that for people who chose to do part-time work and those who stayed unemployed, with around 17 and 16 thousand respectively. Only thirty five hundred of students did voluntary work."

This time it's an inconsistency in writing numbers. I'll put them in bold for convenience:

🗒 "The largest number of graduate students continued their studies (29,665). This number is almost twice as high as that for people who chose to do part-time work and those who stayed unemployed, with around 17 and 16 thousand respectively. Only thirty five hundred of students did voluntary work."

This inconsistency makes it harder for the reader to process the information. Just stick to the simplest way - just write the data in digits:

🗒 "The largest number of graduate students continued their studies (29,665). This number is almost twice as high as that for people who chose to do part-time work and those who stayed unemployed, with around 17,000 and 16,000 respectively. Only 3,500 students did voluntary work."

Btw, in English thousands are set off by commas! Make sure you write the figures correctly:
✅ 29,665
❌ 29665
❌ 29.665

Writing the thousands incorrectly can create confusion: without a comma, there are too many digits glued together, while a period (correction: a point) looks like a decimal separator.