UPM-CALC/LPE2501/SEM 1/2021-22/SCL/WORKSHEET 1

LPE2501 ACADEMIC WRITING

SCL WORKSHEET 1

Name: MUHAMMAD ARIFUDDIN BIN AZAHAN

Matric no.: 203624 Group: 82

A. Introduction to Academic Writing

Underline the best answer for the following questions.

1. What is academic writing?

a. An old-fashioned style of writing.

b. The type of writing found in newspapers.
c. The style of writing that follows a specific structure and uses formal
academic language.

2. Choose three words to describe academic writing.

a. Precise, clear, objective

b. Talented, stylish, inspiring
c. Subjective, obscure, vague

3. What are the purposes of academic writing?

a. To settle, to negotiate and to inform

b. To guess, to hypothesise and to make conclusions
c. To inform, to persuade and to argue a specific point

4. Choose the right elements that are present in academic writing. There may be
more than one answer.

a. Proper citation and referencing.

b. Includes information taken from sources such as magazines.
c. Information is taken from credible sources such as books and journal
articles.

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5. Choose the most credible academic sources from the list below. There
may be more than one answer.

a. Newspaper
b. Literary analysis
c. Academic books
d. Academic journals
e. Essays from peers
f. Online articles from any website

Decide True or False for the following statements.

6. Academic writing is well organised and has a proper structure.

a. True
b. False

7. Academic writing uses simple everyday words, so it is easier for people to

understand the content.

a. True
b. False

8. Information on the internet is free. Anyone can use it in academic writing without
having to reference it.

a. True
b. False

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B. Language in Academic Writing

1. Informal language should be avoided in academic writing. Select the features of

informal language from the list below.

a. Formal words
b. Phrasal verbs
c. Contractions
d. Specialised jargon
e. Personal pronouns
f. Idiomatic expressions
g. Colloquial / slang words

2. Contractions in English are _____.

a. compound words
b. shortened forms of words
c. words with more than one meaning

3. What is the problem in the following sentence?

The students won't be attending the seminar as it's a public holiday.

a. It is too short.
b. The meaning is unclear.
c. The use of contractions.

4. Choose the best word to complete each sentence.

i. When designing experiments, researchers must use a scientific method in order

to obtain comparable and _________________ results.

a. accurate
b. inference

ii. The growth in the number of students majoring in Computer Science has been
_________________.

a. correlated
b. exponential

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iii. The anthropologist looked for a direct _________________ between the group's
language and their cultural outlook.

a. hypothesis
b. correlation

iv. The medical intern was _________________ an abnormality between the

prescribed medicine and the patient's reaction.

a. observing
b. inferencing

5. Fill in the box by matching the informal words to their formal words. Use the
words below to help you.

exact perplexed lethargic obese exhilarating

i. very fat obese

ii. very confused perplexed

iii. very accurate exact

iv. very sleepy lethargic

v. very exciting exhilarating

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6. Fill in the box by matching the phrasal verbs to their formal words. Use the
words below to help you.

merged omit / delete explained contribute

discover numerous rise / increase hate

a. get up rise / increase

b. put into contribute
c. find out discover
d. got together merged
e. cut out omit / delete