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WorksheetsResearch Writing skills (Basic Concepts)
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
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1.
What is 'academic writing'?
a)
A technique to write balanced, accurate and professional assignments
b)
An old-fashioned way of writing
c)
How university professors write
d)
The writing you find in textbooks
2.
Choose three words to describe academic writing:
a)
Talented, stylish, inspiring
b)
Precise, clear, objective
c)
Decisive, divisive, derisive
d)
Subjective, obscure, vague
3.
Complex sentences are:
a)
too long
b)
only for very complex ideas
c)
pointless
d)
used to explain a point clearly and with the appropriate amount of detail
4.
Which sentence is a fragment?
a)
Korea produces cars and cellphones.
b)
Where is the bank?
c)
Wheat in Argentina.
5.
For in-text citation, if the source does not have a date or year, what should be noted?
a)
Write "no date available" besides the author
b)
Write (n.d.)
c)
Write an estimated year.
d)
Write the time you accessed the source.
6.
If you use a blocked quote, you should always ...
a)
copy it again to other parts of the text.
b)
use font size 14.
c)
provide your own interpretation.
d)
make it specifically 40 words.
7.
If the quote is a complete sentence ...
a)
add another sentence.
b)
add the paragraph number.
c)
italicise the first word.
d)
capitalise the first letter of the first word.
8.
Paragraphs always contain:
a)
six or more sentences
b)
an example
c)
a topic sentence
9.
The purpose of an introduction is:
a)
to give your aims and methods
b)
to excite the reader
c)
to summarise your ideas
10.
Which style of writing is better in an academic context?
a)
The chart shows that...
b)
We can see from the chart that...
c)
As you can see from the chart that...
d)
I can see from the chart that...
11.
What should you avoid in academic writing?
a)
objectivity
b)
formal terms
c)
vague terms
d)
punctuation
12.
Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source and, as such, should not be used in your assignments.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
If you are reading Hunain (2017) and found "Hound (as cited in Malik, 2015) said ..." This means that ...
a)
Hunain had the text Hound.
b)
Hunain had the text Malik.
c)
Hunain committed plagiarism.
d)
Hunain had both Hound and Malik when writing the text.
14.
How do you arrange the sources in the reference page?
a)
Thematically.
b)
Alphabetically.
c)
Chronologically.
d)
Orderly manner.
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