Producing Abstracts - Review of Class 1

Regarding the CARS writing model for academic writing, what do the parts in highlight correspond to?

a

b

c

Establishing a Territory

Establishing a Niche

Occupying the Niche

Answer explanation

Which verb tense is used in the methods part of an abstract?

• Future

• Present

• Past

• 

The canonical parts of an abstract in sequence are ​ ​ ​ ​ (a)   , ​ (b)   , ​ ​ (c)   ,​ ​ (d)   and ​ ​ (e)   .

• background/introduction
• purpose
• methods/topic/ procedures
• results/findings
• discussion/ conclusion/implication/recommendation
• puzzle
• puzzle
• references
• further topics of investigation
• authorship

Reorder the following collocation

• aimds

• to

• this

• investigate

• research

Reorder the following colloation

• evidence

• there

• is

• suggesting

• no

True or False? Why? Academic text authors' can put words together following their own choices, provided they are grammatically correct.

• True. Academic language is a product of authors' choices.

• Partially True depending on the field of science.

• False. Academic language is part of a semi-contructed system.

• False. Academic language follows rules of frequency in use.

Is the use of technology to aid in the production of academic texts considered plagiarism?