Academic Writing Quiz

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

• uses longer words

• tries to be precise and unbiased

• is harder to understand

The purpose of an introduction is:

• to give your aims and methods

• to excite the reader

• to summarise your ideas

All in-text citations looks like:

• (Smith, 2008)

• (Megan Smith, 2008)

• (Smith, M. 2008)

When making notes you should always include

• your own ideas

• the date

• a full reference

This punctuation mark (') is called:

• comma

• colon

• apostrophe

"Progress" and "research" are both nouns. What kind of noun?

• countable

• uncountable

• proper