
Gopen and Swan Quiz
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which best describes Gopen and Swan’s approach to scientific writing?
The purpose of scientific discourse is the actual communication of information and thought.
The purpose of scientific writing is to prove your hypothesis.
The purpose of scientific writing is so complex that the writing has to be incomprehensible.
The purpose of scientific writing is to make simple things sound more sophisticated.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which components of the structure of a scientific text act as clues alerting the reader to its scientific substance?
Data arranged in a table
The font size changes from section to section
There is no Bibliography or Works Cited section because the experiment was the authors’ own idea
In place of standard, well-labeled graphs, images of celebrities are used as metaphors for trends in the data
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Subject-Verb Separation: Which of the following sentences below best exemplifies Gopen and Swan’s advice for Subject-Verb proximity?
Lawrence and Cattila, who were unable to replicate their results, published the first experimental study supporting the flat earth hypothesis.
Lawrence and Cattila published the first experimental study supporting the flat earth hypothesis, though they were unable to replicate their initial results.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Finish the sentence: “The stress position coincides with…”
…the approaching deadline.
…the hook at the beginning of the introduction.
…the posture of hunching over a specimen and probing it with tweezers.
…the moment of syntactic closure.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When Gopen and Swan write that the topic position principle is analogous to the proverbial wisdom, “First things first,” the “first things” are:
Perspective and context
Closure and fulfillment
Figures and stats
First names before last names
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When a writer neglects to include old information in conjunction with new information in a sentence, it’s often because…
…the connections are so clear in the writer’s mind that they seem unnecessary to state.
…the writer is actually a mystery writer.
…the reader actually misread. Writers never make this mistake.
…they are smarter than their readers.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
In which of the following is the action of the sentence articulated by the verb?
In multiple trials it was measured that plant growth is weaker when there is restricted sunlight.
Restricted sunlight weakened plant growth measurably across multiple trials.
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