Academic Writing

What is cohesion in academic writing?

• The smooth movement between sentences.

• The meaning of the communication.

• Reading between the lines.

• Uniformity of a writing style.

All of these are reasons that clarity is lost in academic writing EXCEPT for . . .

• misspellings

• using acronyms

• proper use of adjectives and adverbs

• too many ideas in a small space

Academic writing is formal in tone because . . .

• it includes 1st person pronouns.

• it uses contractions.

• it includes 2nd person pronouns.

• it uses sophisticated vocabulary.

All of the following are elements of academic writing EXCEPT for . . .

• Logical Order

• Parallelism

• Consistency

• Variety

An academic writer should avoid . . .

• unnecessary words.

• complete sentences.

• descriptions.

• combining sentences.

Effective academic writing demonstrates:

(Tick all correct answers)

• Comprehensible writing

• Strong listening capabilities

• Supporting arguments with specific details

• Clear critical thinking

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

• uses longer words

• tries to be precise

• is harder to understand

• uses words repetitively

An in-text citation looks like:

• (Manton, 2008)

• Richard Manton, 2008)

• (Manton, R. 2008)

Paragraphs always contain:

• six or more sentences

• an example

• a topic sentence

Which element of academic writing avoids redundancy or "dead wood words"?

• Cohesiveness

• Conciseness

• Conclusions

• Clarity