General US Academic Writing MCQs

1. Which one is the correct name for a citation style that would be appropriate to use in a research paper in chemistry?

2. At which level, academic pieces of writing should be cohesive?

3. Which are features of academic writing?

4. What are moral rights?

5. What does the phrase 'never bury the lead' mean in the world of online writing?

6. What is an oxymoron, a word that is used in academia in a number of humanities and interdisciplinary subjects?

7. What is a hanging paragraph?

8. Which are features of cohesive writing?

9. Which publication is NOT a known literary review?

10. Which statement regarding abstracts is NOT true?

11. The tone of academic writing should generally be ______________ in nature.

12. Which element is NOT dictated by the MLA style of citation?

13. Which style of citation is used for technical topics, especially those related to computer science?

14. What is peer review?

15. What does ISSN (the journal equivalent of ISBN) stand for?

16. Which one is not a technical or administrative form of academic writing?

17. The term 'bibliography' comes from the Greek and literally means which of the following?

18. How are works arranged in a bibliography?

19. Which one is not a citation style for academic writing?

20. Which style of citation is used for publications and academic essays in the arts and humanities?

21. What is a topic sentence?

22. Which element is NOT dictated by the American Sociological Association style of citation?

23. How would a writer format a quotation in an academic paper if he wanted to delete some words from the middle of the quotation?

24. What is a premise in an argumentative paper?

25. Which literary device or language conventions is the only one to be used in academic writing?

26. In which field is the Bluebook style of citation used?

27. Which features is/are not desirable in academic writing?

28. What is a comma splice?

29. If a bibliography is very long, is it an acceptable common practice to organize it into sections?

30. What is brainstorming and when would an academic writer be most likely to use it?

31. What is an annotated bibliography?

32. Which sentence would be best suited to academic writing?

33. What is the difference between a book report and an abstract?

34. Which statement regarding translation is NOT true?

35. The citation style known as APA, which stands for _____________, is generally used for ______________.

36. What is the Columbia style of citation used for?

37. Which techniques will increase the readership of an academic article no matter where the writer displays it online?

38. Which are useful online resources or techniques a writer could use to showcase his or her own academic writing?

39. What is the reason for citing academic sources in a bibliography?

40. The topic sentence is always placed as the first sentence in a paragraph.

41. Which expressions should not be used in academic writing?

42. Which is/are clear benefits of transferring an academic journal online?

43. Which one is NOT an online blog or website where one's academic writing could be displayed and commented upon?

44. What is the difference between a works cited page and a bibliography?

45. Why is knowing one's audience of great importance when writing an academic article?

46. What does the term 'rhetoric' mean?

47. What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?

48. What is the term for the sentence (or sentences) in a standard academic paper that describes the central proposition to be put forward and proved in the paper?

49. Which terms means 'to combine pre-stated arguments or statements into one'?

50. Which group correctly lists the forms of academic writing?

51. What is open-access publishing?

52. How should quotations longer than three lines generally be laid out within the body of an academic paper?

53. Are there circumstances in which the phrase 'But I didn't know I was plagiarizing' is an acceptable excuse?

54. A writer's approach to an academic paper should generally be ________________ in nature.

55. What are paragraph transitions?

56. What kind of academic paper is the 'literature review'?

57. What is self-plagiarism?

58. Which one is the best definition of plagiarism in an academic context?

59. Which one forms the core of a bibliographic entry, whether for a book or a journal article?

60. Which form the core of a bibliographic entry specifically for a journal article?