Teaching and Learning Activity

Module: Academic Literacy (HALP1181)

Week number (Date): 13 (14 May 2020)
Unit covered: 1-5

Instructions:
To enrich your learning experience at Boston even further, and to ensure that you are
exposed to a variety of resources in this module, announcements will be posted every
week containing additional materials or activities for you to work through.
It is important to note that these activities are neither compulsory nor weighted, but that
it will be to your advantage to participate. The purpose of the activities is to help you
better understand the content of your weekly unit/s of study, and it will assist in creating
insight and deeper meaning.

The following Multiple Choice Questions are based on units 1 – 5 of your prescribed
textbook: Welcome to Higher Education
 Select one correct answer from the four options provided.
 Write the question number and selected options as shown in the example below. DO
NOT write out the entire answer.

Example:
16: B
17: D
18: A

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1. A reading technique meant to look for main or general ideas in a text, without
going into detailed and exhaustive reading, is called:
A. Scanning
B. Analytical reading
C. Skimming
D. Exploratory reading

2. Your father enjoys reading the newspaper because he likes being up to date with
current affairs. For what purpose is he reading?
A. Reading to critique
B. Reading for pleasure
C. Reading to study
D. Reading for general meaning

3. What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb and answers when?,
where?, how?, and to what extent?
A. Verb
B. Adjective
C. Adverb
D. Preposition

4. In what part of an evaluative report would you include evidence of investigations,

questionnaires, interview transcripts and research methods?
A. Methodologies and procedures
B. Recommendations
C. Conclusions
D. Summary

5. What are the two factors that help you judge the credibility of an article?
A. Sponsorship and peer reviewed
B. Author's credentials and unbiased source

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 C. Sponsoring organization and unbiased source
D. Recency and verifiability

6. Which section of a project proposal explains how the project will be delivered?
A. Problem statement
B. Objectives
C. Technical approach
D. Project team

7. Jargon is considered as:

A. language used by a specific profession
B. obscure language used to mislead or confuse
C. both A and B
D. neither A nor B

8. Drawing information or content from the work of another without acknowledging

the source by citing a reference is considered plagiarism in all of the following
cases except when:
A. Using the exact words of the author.
B. Using data that the author has compiled through his/her independent
investigation.
C. Using information from the author's work that is regarded as common
knowledge in the discipline.
D. Reproducing in your paper a chart contained in the author's work.

9. What type of listening occurs when you are listening to someone in a sensitive
manner in order to identify the thoughts and feelings behind the spoken words?
A. Empathetic listening
B. Active listening
C. Sympathetic listening
D. Passive listening

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10. Which citation style is also called the author-date system?
A. APA
B. MLA
C. Harvard
D. Chicago

11. As part of your new job, you have been asked to prepare a monthly report on the
number and types of mortgage loan applications that were received. What would
be your first step as you begin to develop this information report?
A. Gathering information
B. Drawing conclusions
C. Analysing the situation
D. Making recommendations

12. Which of the following statements does NOT form part of the ECT study method?
A. Testing what you know
B. Consolidating what you know
C. Reciting what you know
D. Exploration of the topic.

13. What form of written communication is used in emails and letters?

A. Formal
B. Direct
C. Indirect
D. Social

14. When should you use an apostrophe?

A. To indicate possession (where a noun owns something).
B. When someone is speaking.

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 C. For a contraction (where letters are missing) and possession (where a noun
owns something).
D. When an independent clause is attached to a dependent clause.

15. “We were able to save the day thanks to teamwork and innovative thinking.”

Which of the following is the best possible paraphrasing of the statement above?

A. We saved the day with teamwork and creative thinking.

B. Because we worked together and used innovation, we made it work.
C. Thanks to innovative thinking and teamwork, we were able to save the day.
D. We were able to save the day together.

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