Academic Writing Pop Quiz

Academic writing lacks rules and practices

• True

• False

Academic writing incorporates a certain tone and strictly uses traditional spelling, punctuation and grammar rules.

• True

• False

The focus of academic writing is the writer.

• True

• False

As a writer, a student is responsible for providing evidence to support his claim in his writing.

• True

• False

Academic writing requires abstract thoughts as you need to discuss philosophies, concepts and theories in the topics.

• True

• False

A student should not cite experts of a particular topic in academic writing.

• True

• False

Plagiarism is an academic offence, as it constitutes stealing other people's ideas and passing them off as your own.

• True

• False

You can reuse your essay from a previous semester in your current class assignment - any prior permission from your lecturer is not required.

• True

• False

Rewrite the active sentence into passive sentence

"The city constructs tiny homes for the homeless"

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OFF

Rewrite the active sentence into a passive sentence

"Effective leaders constantly monitor the work progress of new workers"

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OFF