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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