WorksheetsAcademic Writing Quiz
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
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's an "evidence"?
a statement used to support or prove the thesis
the analysis explaining the meaning of the evidence
quotations from a source
a sentence that grabs your reader's attention
The term, "VERY OFTEN" may be improved using a more appropriate academic word which is:
frequently
seriously
rarely
stubbornly
An academic essay must use appropriate vocabulary words but not too pretentious, highfalutin words. Which among these words is the simplified version of the term, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?
beautiful; pretty
extraordinarily good; wonderful
exquisite; one-of-a-kind
hardworking; industrious
What is the function of the first paragraph for the problem-solution?
To give reasons and examples
To present the problem, effects and causes.
To give different ideas and examples
The part of an essay where the writer brings together the main ideas and wraps up the essay.
Thesis
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
The sentence that presents the main idea of your essay is the
thesis
topic
introduction
hook
Which part of your essay will contain textual evidence to support your points?
the introduction
the body
the conclusion
the thesis
What kind of essay should you write for the following topic?
A person's worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Advantages and disadvantages essay
Opinion essay
Cause and effect essay
Problem-solution essay
What is the synonym of "important"? ( write as many as you can)
What is the purpose of writing an opinion essay?
To give personal example to a topic
To give personal response to a topic
To give personal request to a topic
What goes into the body of your essay?
Reasons only
Reasons + examples + details
Opinion
Where do you give your opinion? (Choose all that apply)
Introduction
Body 1
Body 2
Body 3
Conclusion
Second, television can impair children's reading ability. Reading requires skills and brain processes that watching television does not. If children watch television for too many hours each day, they do not have the chance to practice the skills that they need in order to learn how to read.
what is the supporting idea?
television can impair children's reading ability.
Reading requires skills and brain processes that watching television does not.
If children watch television for too many hours each day, they do not have the chance to practice the skills that they need in order to learn how to read.
Where would you find this sentence? "These days, it is easy to find males and females studying together in college."
Conclusion
Body
Introduction
We use "in addition" to
add more arguments
negate a statement
express our opinion
finish the essay
1. Choose three words to describe academic writing:
Talented, stylish, inspiring
Decisive, divisive, derisive
Precise, clear, objective
Subjective, obscure, vague
