Academic Discourse

Choosing expanded modal form over contracted form is one way to achieve ______ in an academic text.

• Formality
• Objectivity
• Explicitness
• Caution

In achieving _______ in a text, you should avoid the use of personal pronouns such as you, I and we.

• Formality
• Objectivity
• Explicitness
• Caution

Academic writing requires care since knowledge is built from proven theories and concept. Therefore, _______ is needed to avoid sweeping generalization.

• Formality
• Objectivity
• Explicitness
• Caution

Aside from the language sentences need to be constructed in such a way they show level of complexity that reflects the sophistication of an academic text. It talks about the ________ of the text

• Structure
• Format
• Explicitness
• Caution

Academic writing demands the use of signposts that allow readers to trace the relationships in the parts of a study. It is to show ________ in the academic text.

• Formality
• Objectivity
• Explicitness
• Caution

Objectivity can be achieve if you avoid ________ that shows biases and lessen the objectivity of the text.

• Emotive Language
• Foul Language
• Academic Language
• Systematic Language

In _______, the verbs are made central as they denote action.

• Passivization
• Nominalization
• Conversion
• Annotation

In _______, the results of the actions are highlighted.

• Passivization
• Nominalization
• Conversion
• Annotation

In achieving _______ in a text, you should avoid using colloquial, trite or idiomatic expression in the text.

• Formality
• Objectivity
• Explicitness
• Caution

A signpost you can you if your intention is to show a change in your line of argument is ________.

• Due to
• This resulted in
• In addition
• However