Academic Writing Quiz

Choose three words to describe academic writing:

• Talented, stylish, inspiring

• Decisive, divisive, derisive

• Precise, clear, objective

• Subjective, obscure, vague

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

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

• True

• It depends on how important the assignment is.

• False

• You only need to reference authors' work on the internet

Academic language...

• is a set of vocabulary terms used in schools

• comes as second nature to native speakers, but is difficult for ELLs to acquire

• is the linguistic register that students are expected to use in school subjects

What is a claim?

• a statement used to support or prove the thesis

• quotations from a source

• the analysis explaining the meaning of evidence

• a sentence that grabs your reader's attention

What are the purposes of doing an academic writing?

• To settle, to negotiate and to inform

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

• To defend, to challenge and to question

• To guess, to hypothesize and to make conclusions

The main difference between academic writing and normal writing is that academic writing:

• uses longer words

• tries to be precise and unbiased

• is harder to understand

Plagiarism is:

• a dangerous disease

• an academic offense

• an academic website

What is 'academic writing'?

• A technique to write balanced, accurate and professional assignments

• How university professors write

• An old-fashioned way of writing

• 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