English for Academic and Professional Services

Lesson 1 Quiz: STRUCTURE AND FEATURES OF AN ACADEMIC TEXTS

I. Identify whether the following statement is True or not. Write TRUE if the statement is true and write FALSE
if the statement is false.

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1. Academic writing is a process that starts with
posing a question, problematizing a concept,
evaluating an opinion, and ends in answering the
question or questions posed, clarifying the
problem, and/or arguing for stand.
2. Academic text is a three-part essay structure
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Academic writing is a cycle that starts with posing a
question, problematizing a concept, evaluating an
opinion, and ends in answering the question or
questions posed, clarifying the problem, and/or arguing
for stand.

3. Body where the essay's (or article's) argument, Introduction where the essay's (or article's) argument,
ideas and results are developed and discussed ideas and results are developed and discussed.
4. The purposes of an academic text are to inform, to The purposes of an academic text are to inform, to
argue and to persuade. argue and to persuade.
5. Formal feature of an academic text should avoid Explicit feature of an academic test means that the
colloquial words and expressions. responsibility of the writer in English to make it clear to
the reader how the various parts of the text are related.
6. Explicit feature of an academic test means that the Formal feature of an academic text should avoid
responsibility of the writer in English to make it colloquial words and expressions.
clear to the reader how the various parts of the
text are related.
7. Hedging is the feature of an academic text that is
necessary to make decisions about your stance
on a particular subject, or the strength of the
claims you are making.
8. Shorter student texts in academic text refer to Longer student texts in academic text refer to essays.
essays.
9. The main idea is the central, or most
important, idea in a paragraph or passage.
10. Main ideas are also found in the concluding
sentences of a paragraph. The author gives
supporting information first and then makes the
point in the last sentence.
11. Main ideas are often found at the beginning of
paragraphs. The first sentence often explains the
subject being discussed in the passage.
12. Text structure refers to how the information within
a written text is organized.
13. An author might put the main idea in the middle of An author might put the main idea in the middle of a
a paragraph. The author will spend a few paragraph. The author will spend a few sentences
sentences introducing the topic, present the main introducing the topic, present the main idea, then spend
idea, then spend the rest of the paragraph the rest of the paragraph supporting it. This can make
supporting it. This can make the main idea more the main idea easier to find.
difficult to find.

14. In the cause and effect structure, the results of

something are explained.
15. Conclusion should not contain any new facts or Body should not contain any new facts or ideas, but
ideas, but rather function as a brief restatement of rather function as a brief restatement of the main
the main arguments and facts that have been arguments and facts that have been treated in the
treated in the essay. essay.
16. Complex refers to the written language has longer
words, it is lexically more dense and it has a more
varied vocabulary.
17. Chronological structure of an academic text is Compare and contrast structure of an academic text is
making the information in the passage organized making the information in the passage organized in
in order of time. order of time.
18. Compare and contrast structure is citing two or Chorological structure is citing two or more things being
more things being described. Their similarities described. Their similarities and differences are
and differences are discussed. discussed.
19. Sequence or process writing is writing the
information is organized in steps or a process is
explained in the order in which it occurs.
20. In the problem-solution structure, a problem is
described and a response or solution is proposed
or explained.