Academic Writing Test

What is 'academic writing'?

• A technique to write balanced, accurate and professional assignments
• An old-fashioned way of writing
• How university professors write
• The writing you find in textbooks

As long as you know your tutor, you don't need to use a formal style of writing. It's good to be friendly!

• Some tutors like you to be formal but some don't mind as long as you do the work.
• You only need to be formal in exams, not regular coursework.
• It's good to be friendly but always use formal English when you write assignments.
• Formal English is too old-fashioned these days

Choose three words to describe academic writing:

• Talented, stylish, inspiring
• Precise, clear, objective
• Decisive, divisive, derisive
• Subjective, obscure, vague

Complex sentences are:

• too long
• only for very complex ideas
• pointless
• used to explain a point clearly and with the appropriate amount of detail

Contractions are:

• what happens when you have a baby
• when someone says the opposite to you
• when something is too narrow
• a shortened form of a word

Which example is correct?

• However, the main reasons are time, money and cost.
• However the main reasons, are time, money, and, cost.
• However, the main reasons are time money and cost.
• However, the main reasons, are time money, and cost.

Which is correct?

• They were effected badly by the incident
• The incident effected them badly.
• They were affected badly by the incident.
• The affects of the incident were bad.

Choose the right one:

• It's bowl's empty.
• Its bowl's empty.
• Its' bowls' empty.
• It's bowls empty.

'Information on the internet is 'free'. Anyone can use it without having to reference it.'

• True
• False
• It depends on how important the assignment is.
• You only need to reference authors' work on the internet

Scanning is:

• making detailed notes
• reading for an overview
• lying on the couch and watching tv, with a book nearby
•  reading for specific information