College Writing Tests

What is 'academic writing'?

• A technique to write balanced, accurate and professional assignments
• An old-fashioned way of writing
• How university professors write
• The writing you find in textbooks

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

As long as you know your tutor, you don't need to use a formal style of writing. It's good to be friendly!

• Some tutors like you to be formal but some don't mind as long as you do the work.
• You only need to be formal in exams, not regular coursework.
• It's good to be friendly but always use formal English when you write assignments.
• Formal English is too old-fashioned these days

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Choose three words to describe academic writing:

• Talented, stylish, inspiring
• Precise, clear, objective
• Decisive, divisive, derisive
• Subjective, obscure, vague

Contractions are:

• what happens when you have a baby
• when someone says the opposite to you
• when something is too narrow
• a shortened form of a word

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CCSS.L.2.2C

Which example is correct?

• However, the main reasons are time, money and cost.
• However the main reasons, are time, money, and, cost.
• However, the main reasons are time money and cost.
• However, the main reasons, are time money, and cost.

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CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.2B

Which is correct?

• They were effected badly by the incident
• The incident effected them badly.
• They were affected badly by the incident.
• The affects of the incident were bad.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Choose the right one:

• It's bowl's empty.
• Its bowl's empty.
• Its' bowls' empty.
• It's bowls empty.

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CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.2D

'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

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Scanning is:

• making detailed notes
• reading for an overview
• lying on the couch and watching tv, with a book nearby
•  reading for specific information

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Academic literacy(ies)...

• are often viewed pluralistically

• have a meaning dependent on contexts of literacy

• are sometimes defined as literacy needed to succeed in school

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3