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WorksheetsWriting Mechanics of Academic Texts
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is defined as the rules and conventions concerning technical aspects of writing composition?
Linguistics
Mechanics
Olympics
Haptics
Which of the following is NOT an example of a typographical error?
Omission
Transposition
Addition
Homonyms
Which of these words should NOT be capitalized (excluding the exception)?
family titles
calendar days and months
university courses
religious names
What punctuation mark is used to join two or more words to form compound adjectives that precede a noun?
colon
semicolon
hyphen
apostrophe
What spelling error is exemplified in the following expression?
"the surveyy"
phonetic
homonym
homoerectus
typographical
What do we call the sentence pattern whose ideas need to have a similar grammatical structure?
paralellism
parallelism
parallellism
parralellism
What is the exception when capitalizing the cardinal points?
when part of a proper noun
when addressing a person
when used as a sentence fragment
when used as a noun
Which abbreviation should be used sparingly in academic texts?
acronyms
initialism
contractions
Latin expressions
Which of the following sentences DOES NOT follow parallel structure?
We can neither wait for something to happen nor take evasive action.
Students who do not attend class risk being suspended or worse, expelled.
How you look in the workplace is just as important as your behavior.
Driving a car requires coordination, patience, good eyesight.
Which of the following is a use of a comma?
to draw out a conclusion
to separate two parts of a linked idea
to prevent the misreading of certain words
to punctuate abbreviations
Mean (v), mean (n), and mean (adj) are an example of homographs.
True
False
Scuba is an initialism, while CPR is an acronym.
True
False
The word internet should be capitalized if it is used as an adjective.
True
False
The end punctuation of the sentence should always go after a parenthetical citation.
True
False
The following sentence observes parallel structure:
Justin delivered his speech with confidence and enthusiastically.
True
False
Phonetic errors in spelling occur because a word can sound like it could be spelled multiple ways.
True
False
Contractions are always avoided in writing academic texts.
True
False
Capitalize the first word of the quotation when it is integrated into the sentence.
True
False
Block quotations are used when the word limit exceeds twenty and shall use quotation marks.
True
False
The following sentence observes parallel structure:
The following are included in the folder: the students' profile, the validated questionnaire, and the response analytics.
True
False
