EAPP 1st Quiz

Who are the target readers of an academic essay?

• Parents, workers, teachers

• Teachers, students, academic community

• Students, out-of-school youth, government officials

• None of the above

. Formality in academic writing requires precision to make a legitimate piece of writing.

• True

• False

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

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 is a form of communication that is shaped by the following factors: topic, role, and audience.

• True

• Absolutely True

• Absolutely false

• False

Writing is a form of communication that is shaped by the following factors: topic, role, and audience.

• True

• Absolutely True

• Absolutely false

• False

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.

The use of personal pronouns such as I, you, and we is acceptable in academic writing.

• True

• False

An abstract is a summary of a novel.

• True

• False

Choose three words to describe academic writing:

• Talented, stylish, inspiring

• Precise, clear, objective

• Decisive, divisive, derisive

• Subjective, obscure, vague