WorksheetsDo you have academic style?
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which one is the closest to academic style?
A novel?
A newspaper article?
An advertisement?
A letter from the bank?
The best way to start an academic text is
with a question
With some surprising information
with some background details
with the topic of the text
The best to keep the readers attention is
to write short sentences
to give familiar information first, and then new information
to be friendly like in an email
to ask questions first and then give the answers, like a conversation
The best order for ideas in an academic paragraph
is from a general idea of the main point to the specific details
from specific details to a general idea of the main point
the order of the ideas as they come up when i'm writing
no particular order, as that is not important
The best way to start a sentence in an academic text
with some information the reader already knows
with some background details
With some new of surprising information
with a personal pronoun
The best kind of words to use in academic writing are
unusual words that the reader will notice and admire
simple words such as big and important, which are easy to understand
with words such as reason and similarity, which show the relationship between ideas
special technical words that are specific for the subject
The main difference between academic writing and normal writing is that academic writing:
uses longer words
tries to be precise
is harder to understand
uses words repetitively
The list of common abbreviation that should be avoided in academic writing is ....
e.g., i.e., etc
F.B.I, U.S.A, U.F.O
don't, they've, can't
Dr., MBA., TV
