Academic Writing Quiz

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

What's an "evidence"?

• a statement used to support or prove the thesis

• the analysis explaining the meaning of the evidence

• quotations from a source

• a sentence that grabs your reader's attention

The term, "VERY OFTEN" may be improved using a more appropriate academic word which is:

• frequently

• seriously

• rarely

• stubbornly

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

• extraordinarily good; wonderful

• exquisite; one-of-a-kind

• hardworking; industrious

What is the function of the first paragraph for the problem-solution?

• To give reasons and examples

• To present the problem, effects and causes.

• To give different ideas and examples

The part of an essay where the writer brings together the main ideas and wraps up the essay.

• Thesis

• Introduction

• Body

• Conclusion

The sentence that presents the main idea of your essay is the

• thesis

• topic

• introduction

• hook

Which part of your essay will contain textual evidence to support your points?

• the introduction

• the body

• the conclusion

• the thesis

What kind of essay should you write for the following topic?

A person's worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

• Advantages and disadvantages essay

• Opinion essay

• Cause and effect essay

• Problem-solution essay

What is the synonym of "important"? ( write as many as you can)