WorksheetsAcademic writing
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
The main difference between academic writing and normal writing is that academic writing:
Uses longer words
Tries to be precise and unbiased
Is harder to understand
Teachers complain most about students:
not answering the question given
not writing enough
not referencing properly
What is the structure of a paragraph?
Topic Sentence + Supporting Sentence(s) + Concluding Sentence
Supporting Sentence(s) + Topic Sentence + Concluding Sentence
What are the purposes of doing an academic writing?
To settle, to negotiate and to inform
To defend, to challenge and to question
To guess, to hypothesize and to make conclusions
To inform, to persuade and to argue a specific point
Writing academic papers requires deliberate, thorough and careful thought. Therefore, what should one do to achieve a well-crafted academic essay?
One must depend on his/her own opinions alone.
One must not consult the Internet for unsure sources.
One must conduct a research on the topic at hand.
One must depend highly on the Internet for easy information access.
The list of words that cannot be used in academic writing is ...
piece of cake, buddy, buzz off
optimal, likely, suggest
average, excellence, primary
reveal, imply, recommendation
Students are not expected to take a critical approach to the sources that they read.
True
False
When you are reading a reliable text you don't need to question anything that is written.
True
False
What is the purpose of the topic sentence?
To give coherence to the paragraph.
To help with the flow of sentences.
To help the reader understand what the paragraph will be about.
None of the above.
What is evidence?
A reason your topic sentence is true
The first sentence of your paragraph
The last, concluding sentence of your paragraph
An example that backs up your claim/adds proof to your claim
