English for Academic and Professional Purposes - Finals

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

What are the purposes of doing an academic writing?

A. C.

B. D.

• 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 are the three main parts of an essay?

• The hook, the main idea and the conclusion.

• The introduction, the body and the conclusion.

• The topic sentence, the body and the conclusion.

• None of the above

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

• True

• False

• It depends on how important the assignment is.

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

What is an 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

• It depends on how important the assignment is.

• All of the above

When do you use formal language?

• In an academic essay.

• When you talk to a friend.

• When you write a text message.

• In sending emails

What does it mean to write academically?

• To write in order to pass final exams

• To write paper for scholars

• To write using proper English language

• To avoid copy pasting from the Internet

The term, "VERY OFTEN" may be improved using a more appropriate academic

word which is:

• Frequently

• Rarely

• Seriously

• Stubbornly