WorksheetsEAPP (Unit 1)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Academic English is the language we use to share ...
Wishes
Feelings
Research
Dreams
Academic Writing means that a student will have to ...
(Tick all correct answers)
answer a research question or task.
show his or her feelings.
provide evidence or share experience.
create a critical argument.
Academic English is used to ...
address people who work in factories.
express my feelings.
show my teacher/professor that I am a good student.
persuade a wide, general academic audience.
Effective academic writing demonstrates:
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Comprehensible writing
Strong listening capabilities
Supporting arguments with specific details
Clear critical thinking
Academic writing must be ______. This means that there are logical connections between sentences. One way to do this is to link information back to a previous sentence.
cohesion
coherence
coherent
cohort
Academic writing is:
clear and focused
unclear
non structured
informal
The main difference between academic writing and other writing is that academic writing:
uses longer words
tries to be precise and unbiased
is harder to understand
Choose three words to describe academic writing:
Talented, stylish, inspiring
Decisive, divisive, derisive
Impersonal, clear, objective
Subjective, obscure, vague
What are the purposes of doing an academic writing?
To settle, to negotiate and to inform
To inform, to persuade and to argue a specific point
To defend, to challenge and to question
To guess, to hypothesize and to make conclusions
What is 'academic writing'?
A technique to write balanced, accurate and professional assignments
How university professors write
An old-fashioned way of writing
The writing you find in textbooks
Who are the target readers of an academic essay?
Parents, workers, teachers
Students, out-of-school youth, government officials
Teachers, students, academic community
None of the above
Academic writing is:
The process of breaking down ideas
About what you think and what evidence has contributed to that thinking.
Using deductive reasoning, formal voice, and third person point-of-view
All of the answers are correct
Feelings are more important than facts.
True
False
What is the basic difference between formal and informal languages?
Formal language is less personal than informal language.
Formal language is often used in communicating for professional and/or academic purposes, while informal is typically used for communicating with people we are familiar with.
Formal language makes use of a unique tone and choice of words, while informal language is not very particular about it.
All of the above
which of the following expresions you CAN'T USE in Academic writing.
don't (contractions)
do not
can not
they are
____________ means to exercise your judgement about what you are reading, that is, not taking anything you read at face value.
Critical Reading
Reading
It is a document submitted at the conclusion of a Ph.D. program.
research paper
book reports
dissertation
literary analysis
Annotating is defined as...
taking notes about the main idea.
markings/notes made on a text as you read it.
summarizing the title.
highlighting the entire text.
The process of constructing meaning through the dynamic interaction among the readers existing knowledge, the information suggested by the written language and the context of the reading tuition.
Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening
Need to identify the main points of the writer and also identify the ideas that the writer has raised to support his stand.
Summarize the text
Outline the text.
Evaluate the text.
none of the above
