Practice Quiz Chapter 02

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. Jargon is a type of language used by academics that does what?

a) Impresses the reader with fancy diction correct incorrect

b) Provides experts and other professionals with a way to exchange complex information correct incorrect

c) Makes it difficult for non-experts to understand what's being discussed correct incorrect

d) Both a and c correct incorrect

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. Although student writers are often told to identify the purpose of a piece of writing, this may differ from the purpose of other agents in an academic environment. Which of the following is an example of potentially conflicting purposes in a writing course?

a) A student's desire to conduct primary research and the instructor's reluctance to permit this because the student has not studied research skills correct incorrect

b) A student's desire to achieve a good grade and the instructor's desire for the student to succeed correct incorrect

c) An instructor's goal of treating all students as equal and a student's desire to pass a course correct incorrect

d) An instructor's desire to introduce students to social science research and a student's desire to carry out such research correct incorrect

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. Statistics, diaries, surveys, letters, novels, speeches, newspaper reports, field notes, questionnaires, data from experimentation, and autobiographies are all examples of what kind of source?

a) Primary source correct incorrect

b) Secondary source correct incorrect

c) Invalid source correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following titles would you expect to find in a journal?

a) "Defining the 'American Indian': A Case Study in the Language of Suppression" correct incorrect

b) "Instructor-Paced Mass-Testing for Mastery Performance in an Introductory Psychology Course" correct incorrect

c) "Reforms, Visions, and Standards: A Cross-Curricular View from an Elementary School Perspective" correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Academic articles in the sciences and social sciences often begin with an abstract. What is the function of that abstract?

a) To introduce the essay correct incorrect

b) To provide a concise overview of the essay, including purpose, methods, and results correct incorrect

c) To conclude the essay correct incorrect

d) To support the thesis correct incorrect

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. In academic introductions, a literature review serves what purpose?

a) To summarize previous studies in the field correct incorrect

b) To demonstrate the writer's knowledge of current research correct incorrect

c) To reveal gaps or misunderstandings in existing knowledge correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. In academic introductions, to what does the term "justification" refer?

a) A style of margin correct incorrect

b) An explanation of why an author's study is important or beneficial correct incorrect

c) An argument's supporting points correct incorrect

d) None of the above correct incorrect

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. What does an essay plan do?

a) It maps out the areas to be explored in the essay in the order they will appear. correct incorrect

b) It anticipates the author's conclusions. correct incorrect

c) It creates a timeline for the author to meet her deadlines. correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. In academic writing, the thesis can take what form?

a) A hypothesis, or prediction of an experiment's results correct incorrect

b) Questions the author will answer in the essay correct incorrect

c) An essay plan, or statement of intent correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. In the following introduction to a research essay exploring young girls' use of violence, is the author presenting a literature review, a justification, a thesis, an essay plan, a hypothesis, or some combination of these?: Prior to the 1970's most theorists and researchers treated girls and young women as incidental to the study of violence, crime, and delinquency (Artz, 1988; Berger, 1989; Chesney-Lind and Sheldon, 1980). For the most part, crime and delinquency, and especially violence, were considered masculine forms of behaviour, and females who did participate were deemed aberrant. As Deborah Blum (1998) noted in her book, Sex on the Brain, at a 1995 conference on crime and genetics, when scientists [geneticists] were asked how much energy went into figuring out male versus female aggression, their reply was that the difference was so accepted, such a given, that it "really didn't make for interesting research" (p. xiv, brackets added). (Sibylle Artz, "To Die For: Violent Adolescent Girls' Search for Male Attention," 2004)

a) Literature review correct incorrect

b) Justification correct incorrect

c) Thesis correct incorrect

d) Answers a and b correct incorrect

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. In the following introduction to a study into alluvial aquifers, what is the author presenting?: In this report, I apply several statistical tests to Bedinger's data in order to test whether grain size is a good predictor of the aquifer's yield. (T. Miles, Predicting the Yield of an Alluvial Aquifer, 2004)

a) Literature review correct incorrect

b) Justification correct incorrect

c) Essay plan correct incorrect

d) Hypothesis correct incorrect

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. The use of which of the following is a characteristic of academic writing?

a) Big words correct incorrect

b) Computers correct incorrect

c) A lack of ornamentation correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is NOT an academic documentation method?

a) CTA correct incorrect

b) APA correct incorrect

c) MLA correct incorrect

d) CSE correct incorrect

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. Which of the following sentences is written in the passive voice?

a) The scientist manipulated the data. correct incorrect

b) The scientist tried to hide his manipulation of data. correct incorrect

c) The data was manipulated by the scientist. correct incorrect

d) He manipulated the data. correct incorrect

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. What of the following is true about objectivity in scientific writing?

a) It assures data are treated without bias. correct incorrect

b) It can be conveyed through the use of the active voice. correct incorrect

c) It is impossible to achieve. correct incorrect

d) None of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is an example of a common academic report heading?

a) Middle section correct incorrect

b) Word count correct incorrect

c) Methods correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect