Academic Text Quiz

What are the purposes of doing an academic writing?

• To settle, to negotiate and to inform

• To defend, to challenge and to question

• To inform, to persuade and to argue a specific point

• To guess, to hypothesize and to make conclusions

Writing academic papers requires deliberate, thorough and careful thought. Therefore, what should one do to achieve a well-crafted academic essay?

• One must depend on his/her own opinions alone.

• One must conduct a research on the topic at hand.

• One must not consult the Internet for unsure sources.

• One must depend highly on the Internet for easy information access.

An academic essay must use appropriate vocabulary words but not too pretentious, highfalutin words. Which among these words is the simplified version of the term, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?

• beautiful; pretty

• exquisite; one-of-a-kind

• extraordinarily good; wonderful

• hardworking; industrious

What is the purpose of the topic sentence?

• To give coherence to the paragraph.

• To help with the flow of sentences.

• To help the reader understand what the paragraph will be about.

• None of the above.

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

Choose three words to describe academic writing:

• Talented, stylish, inspiring

• Precise, clear, objective

• Decisive, divisive, derisive

• Subjective, obscure, vague

What is true of the introductory paragraph?

• ends with the thesis.

• introduces the big idea of the essay

• starts with a hook

• all of these