Academic Writing MCQ (Questions) with answers

Academic Writing MCQ (Multiple Choice Question): In this blog post (Academic Writing Quiz), we have written important multiple-choice questions on Academic writing.

These Writing Skills MCQs are very important to researchers to improve their writing skills.

Academic Writing MCQ with answers

1.  Which is the most important and of having the most weightage among the followings

 Research paper

 Conference paper

 Patent

2.  The prime focus of academic writing is

 Language

 Reader friendliness

 Tables

 Figures

3. Which is the right flow of action in academic writing?

 Critical Reading-outline-first draft-multiple drafts- final draft- communicate- follow up

 Outline-first draft-multiple drafts- final draft- Reading-communicate- follow up

 Reading-writing draft-communicate-follow up

 Writing the First draft- checking-final draft-communicate- follow up

4. Academic writing is important to students for

 A better understanding of the topic

 Triggering critical thinking

 Improving CV

 All of the above

5. Which is the correct statement?

 You can not do academic writing if you are not doing research

 Teacher’s don’t need academic writing skills

 Academic Writing is the benchmark to assess the academic proficiency

6. Which is the right flow of action in academic writing

 Outline-first draft-multiple drafts- final draft- Reading-communicate- follow up

 Reading-writing draft-communicate-follow up-revision

 Writing the First draft- checking-final draft-communicate- follow up

 Critical Reading-outline-first draft-multiple drafts- final draft- communicate- follow up

7. Which of the two terms can be used together in a research article as per journal requirement?

 Introduction and acknowledgment

 Results and discussion

 Methods and reference

 Materials and discussions

8. Title of the paper should be?

 Simple

 Reader-friendly

 Representative of study

 All of the above

9. Targeting of journals should be done on the basis of

 Scope of journal

 Impact factor of the journal

 Quality of the work in the manuscript

 All of the above

10. Conclusion of an article gives information on

 Future perspective of research work

 Correlation of results with the previous study

 The central idea of the research work

 Sources of the study

11. The abstract must not contain

 Abbreviations

 Aim of the study

 Results

 Conclusion

12. Comma must be thereafter

 Therefore

 Otherwise

 For instance

 All of the above

13. Passive voice should be made

 To emphasize on the object rather than the subject

 To illustrate a universal or general truth

 To be polite in tone

 All of the above

14. In academic writing it should be avoided

 Writing in first person

 Writing in reader-friendly way

 Writing in the third person

 All of the above

15. Cohesion is

 Technical aspect

 Grammatical aspect

 Phonetic aspect

 All of the above

16. cohesive writing is

 Reader-friendly

 Easy to follow

 Containing ornamental language

 a & b both

17. The language services and software is/are

 SWAN

 Origin

 SPSS

 All of the above

18.  ‘Expectancy relation’ between lexical items

 Repetition

 Collocation

 Synonymy

 All of the above

19. Which should be avoided in academic writing?

 Acronym

 Slang

 Idiomas

 All of the above

20. A good and simple technique to identify the language error

 Rely on a spell checker

 Getting checked from friends

 Reading aloud

 None of the above

21. Which of the following is correct?
Team and group are same things.
Team is a group having common goals.
Team is a group with different goals.
None of the above

22. In an organization, a team is involved in testing of software. This type of team is known as
Software Team
Quality Team
Work Team
Organization Team

23. Which of the following is correct?
Honesty is important for team work.
Enthusiasm is important for effective teamwork.
Both, honesty and enthusiasm are important for team work.
Team is dependent on team leader’s guidance.

24. Which of the following is correct?
A team is possible with one member.  
A team needs at least two members.
Number of members are not defined to call a group as team.
None of the above

25. Which of the following is correct?
There is no significant difference between formal and informal accountability in a team.  
There is need to understand concept of accountability for team leaders.
There is need to understand concept of accountability for team members.
Both (b) and (c) are correct.

26. Which of the following is a challenge in developing good communication environment in a team?
Language difference
Premature judgement
Information overload
All of the above

27. Which of the following is correct?
Writing research paper in top journals need international team.
Writing research papers in top journals need large team.
Writing research papers in top journals need team with complementary skills.
All of the above

28. Which of the following is a possible conflict in team while doing academic writing?
Sequence of authorship
Who will be corresponding author?
Addition/ deletion of an author’s name
All of the above

29. Which of the following is a cause of conflict in team?
Communication problems
Different perspectives
Role ambiguity
All of the above

30. Which of the following is a suitable way to resolve conflict in academic writing teams?
By discussion
By collaborating
By accommodating
All of the above

31. Methodology in grant proposal
Must be addressed in detail
Must be brief
Need not to discussed
Just need the name of method

32. What thing you must have before grant proposal writing
Related prior publications/ experience
Already done the work
Both 1 & 2
Equipment quote

33. The research project/ grant proposal may be related to
PG dissertation
Ph D work
Both 1 & 2
Any routine work

34. What should be the first expected outcome in any science grant proposals
Publications in high impact
Thesis as output
Both 1 & 2
Patent

35. Participation in conferences are needed for
Sharing your research on national and international platform
Exchanging ideas and updating knowledge and ideas
Basis for collaboration
All of the above

36. What is / are to be studied before planning a book
Competition
Target readers
a & b
Research articles

37. Points for targeting publisher for book is/are
Reputation, experience, policy
Geographical coverage
a & b
Time to publish

38. The images with the following licence can only be used without permission
Copyright license
Creative common license
Patent
All of the above

39. Standard you tube licence is
A kind of copyright of Youtube
Free licence
Creative common licence
None of the above

40. Condition applied to attribute source and use the same licence
CC BY SA
CC
CC BY NC
CC BY ND

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