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Academic Writing Test (Upwork)
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1. Choose the most correct option for a piece of academic writing: 'The complete data of experiment results were ____ in the New England Journal of Medicine later that year.'
2. Which is a standard order for the sections of a piece of academic writing?
3. What is an abstract?
4. Which of the following is an acceptable way to cite a web source according to the Chicago Manual of Style?
5. Which is most likely to be an effective strategy for avoiding plagiarism when researching?
6. True or false: an academic argument is almost always strengthened when the author leaves out first-person pronouns.
7. Which of the following can be properly presented in an academic work without citation?
8. Which of the following statements about plagiarism is true?
9. What voice is most appropriate to adopt for academic writing?
10. Views that are in opposition to your own should be addressed:
11. All of the following may appear as a section in a piece of academic writing EXCEPT:
12. Which of the following could be plagiarized?
13. Which of the following is an example of common knowledge that would not require a citation?
14. In an academic paper
15. Which is a quality of a good thesis statement?
16. Which of the following is not a variety of intertextuality?
17. The practice of weaving pre-existing works into new ones is called:
18. What is deductive reasoning?
19. Which are discouraged in many forms of academic writing?
20. When is it permissible to copy verbatim from a source without citation or quotation marks?
21. When presenting your argument
22. What is the logical fallacy that assumes the conclusion as one of the premises?
23. What is the best approach to using jargon or technical terms in academic writing?
24. Phrases like 'sort of
25. Which is a correct APA-style reference for the book 'Life of Pi'?

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