MODIFIED ALTERNATE RESPONSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct; otherwise, replace the highlighted expression (x3).
- Informal tone is the most preferred tone in academic writing.
- Hedging expresses hesitation and uncertainty.
- In academic and professional writing, figurative language must be avoided.
- Thinking about your audience should not affect your academic writing.
- Plagiarism is always taken as a crime.
- Outlining is the practice of marking and writing comments on a text.
- Summarizing reduces a text to its main idea and necessary information.
- In summarizing, ideas not central to the text must be omitted.
- In word-for-word plagiarism, words are lifted directly and scattered in the text or paragraph.
- Annotating is the act of copying ideas without citing the original authors.
- Reviews are also known as response papers.
- Reaction papers describe, analyze, and evaluate works.
- A thesis statement states the main thought or the essential point of a paragraph.
- A concluding sentence develops the controlling idea presented in the topic sentence.
- A thesis statement usually appears at the beginning of the introductory paragraph of an essay.
- A topic sentence sums up the central point of an essay.
- APA in-text citations are added with complete names of authors and dates of work publication.
- Critiques are usually written by college students across different programs.
- Summary serves as a blueprint for an essay to write.
- A concluding sentence summarizes the main idea or restates the topic sentence of a paragraph.
ANSWERS
- Formal tone
- TRUE
- TRUE
- should affect
- ethical construct/ethical violation
- Annotating
- TRUE
- TRUE
- mosaic plagiarism
- Plagiarism
- Reaction papers
- Reviews
- topic sentence
- supporting sentence
- at the end
- thesis statement
- last names of authors
- critics or experts in their own fields
- outline
- TRUE