Features of academic writing

Academic writing is used only at university context

• True

• False

You may have different approaches to writing depending on what methods you are going to use for your research.

• True

• False

Writing letters to friends is also academic writing.

• true

• false

You mustn’t use personal pronouns such as I, You, We in academic writing.

• true

• false

You should not write too many simple sentences

• True

• False

You should write a balance of different types of sentences.

• true

• false

No contraction is accepted in academic writing.

• True

• False

No colloquial English is encouraged when you write compositions at university courses.

• True

• False

Apart from cohesion and coherence within paragraphs, you should also pay attention to the flow within chapters in your thesis.

• True

• False

Over claiming is one of the most common mistakes in writing thesis.

• true

• false