besides key points, the other element a summary should include is:
what are the three ways of in-text citation, mentioned in the lecture?
the key points in the summary don’t have to be reported in the same order of logic as in the original text.
in summary writing, the thesis statement, which is the central idea of the original text, is always given as the first sentence, followed and supported by the key points.
even if you give credit, copying many words or ideas from a source, which makes up the majority of your work, is plagiari.
which of the following can be used as hedging expressions?
a book review is a summary of the main idea of a book.
there are two types of book review: elementary ones and advanced ones.
the publication information and the summary of a book are necessary parts of a book review.
though a critique should point out both the strengths and weaknesses of a book, most critiques put emphasis on the weaknesses of a book by saying what the book should have said but failed to do.
which component is not included in a research proposal?
which tense is not used frequently in research writing?
which component follows the research background component?
when working on the literature paragraph, what should your paragraph start with?
what are the three main purposes of writing a research proposal?
in which section of a lab report may the purpose of the experiment be included?
in which section of a lab report may the data of the experiment be presented and yzed?
which of the following visual aids is the best to present numerical data and standardized values for reference?
which of the following visual aids is the best to present trend over time?
which of the four choices may bring a more concise and stronger effect for the following sentence? a time-frequency ysis method is proposed to _______ the magnetotelluric response function.
what is the main purpose of writing a conference proposal?
when yzing the setting where the audience read your conference proposal, what information should you consider?
what are the two main elements used to yze the conference members (the audience of your conference proposal)?
what are the ways to remove unnecessary words?
what are the common types of conference sessions this unit introduced?
what are the two most important elements of the method section?
which of the following headings are commonly found under the method section?
only words or phrases can act as headings, and sentences or sentence fragments cannot.
headings should be in parallel form, which means that you need to make them consistent within the same level.
the active voice is generally preferred in writing a research paper, but for the method section, the passive voice is widely used.
which one is correct when citing references in the text, following the apa format?
if the only way to cite a source is through a secondary source citation, which of the following citations is the correct formatting?
which of the following ones are the basic elements of the results section?
which of the following items are usually included in the discussion section?
when citing one or two authors in-text, never use et al.; instead, always provide the author(s') names.
which of the following elements are usually covered in an abstract of a research paper?
in an abstract, one should report only the important findings of his or her study.
when stating the conclusion in an abstract, one should present the important results or findings.
the key to abstracting a research paper is to look for the 5 elements in your research paper, and write 1-2 sentences for each.
paralleli usually happens at the word or phrase level, and is rarely used at the clause level.
in a research proposal, what does the research background component provide?
which tense should be used when we describe the action of named researcher carrying out a specific study in the past?
which component provides readers with detailed information about the sources you use in your research proposal?
if you were writing the literature review, and you had a sentence indicating that the statement a scholar makes continues to be true, what tense should you use in the sentence?
in a research proposal, what component does the sentence "to date, little is known about how long college students use cell phones in class and how this might influence their learning" suggest?
when writing a conference proposal, what technique you can use to avoid conflict between you and conference members, particularly when you and your audience might believe in different theories?
in a conference proposal, what information does a conclusion component usually include?
which way is more effective to make this sentence more concise, “astonished, the architect circled around the building in amazement”?
what is the main reason that makes the title of a conference proposal important?
in which setting are the conference members reading your proposal?
which of the following is not a feature of a summary?
which of the following choices is correct, concerning the given argumentative thesis? argumentative thesis: government should ban further construction of nuclear power plants for part 1 the potential threat to the safety of local residents. part 2
which of the following is not a way of in-text citation?
the most important difference between a comprehensive review and an elementary review is _____.
which of the following sentences has hedging expressions in it?
which one of the following headings is not included under the method section?
in which of the following sections is the passive voice widely used?
which element of the method section does the following sentence describe? “the test instrument employed in this study was a revised version of the auditory test for language comprehension (carrow, 1968), which permits the assesent of oral language comprehension of english and spanish without requiring language expression.”
which element of the method section do the following sentences describe? “both groups were tested by the same examiner, a mexican-american fluent in both languages. the children were brought inidually to a test area where they engaged in spontaneous conversation...the test required the child to indicate his response by pointing to the picture which corresponded to the examiner’s utterance.”
in which section of a research paper is the following sentences most likely to appear? “intercorrelations of all of the measures of well-being for the total sample are presented in table 2. correlations with prior measures of positive functioning are all positive and significant, with coefficients ranging from .25 to .73. ”
in which section of a research paper is the following sentences most likely to appear? “our findings suggest that increased levels of depression are associated with those who become addicted to the internet. this suggests that clinical depression is significantly associated with increased levels of personal internet use. it is likely that low self-esteem, poor motivation, fear of rejection, and the need for approval associated with depressives contribute to increased internet use.”
the following is an abstract, consisting of 5 sentences. which key element does sentence ② describe? abstract: ①anxiety about tests and test-like situations was examined in a series of studies of elementary school children in 4 connecticut towns. ②high anxiety (ha) and low anxiety (la) groups were identified by general anxiety and test anxiety scales for which format and validation details are presented. ③data support hypotheses concerning fantasies of bodily injury and cues which interfere with the anxious child's performance. ④ratings by fathers of a portion of the sample discriminated between ha and la children; mothers' ratings did not. ⑤implications for school testing programs are discussed.
the following is an abstract, consisting of 5 sentences. which element does sentence ④ describe? abstract: ①research on exposure to television and movie violence suggests that playing violent video games will increase aggressive behavior. ②a meta-ytic review of the video-game research literature reveals that violent video games increase aggressive behavior in children and young s. ③experimental and nonexperimental studies with males and females in laboratory and field settings support this conclusion. ④analyses also reveal that exposure to violent video games increases physiological arousal and aggression-related thoughts and feelings. ⑤playing violent video games also decreases prosocial behavior.
the following is an abstract, consisting of 5 sentences. which element does sentence ① describe? abstract: ①procrastination is variously described as harmful, innocuous, or even beneficial. ②two longitudinal studies examined procrastination among students. ③procrastinators reported lower stress and less illness than nonprocrastinators early in the semester, but they reported higher stress and more illness late in the term, and overall they were sicker. ④procrastinators also received lower grades on all assignments. ⑤procrastination thus appears to be a self-defeating behavior pattern marked by short-term benefits and long-term costs.
in which section of a lab report is the procedure of the experiment likely to appear?
in which section of a lab report may the data of the experiment be presented and yzed?
what kind of visual aid is it?
which of the following visual aids can be best used to present numerical proportions in a lab report?
which of the following visual aids can be best used to present numerical data and standardized values for reference in a lab report?
what are the two methods of making a value statement?
what are the two ways to organize the literature?
what principles should you consider when choosing a topic for a conference proposal?
what words/phrases are considered wordy below?
choose two acceptable paraphrases from the following for the original text, making sure that they should not be considered plagiari. original: we do not yet understand all the ways in which brain chemicals are related to emotions and thoughts, but the salient point is that our state of mind has an immediate and direct effect on our state of body. source: siegel, b. (1986). love, medicine and miracles (p. 69). new york: harper and row.
what are the hedging expressions in the following sentence? “there is experimental work to show that a week or ten days may not be long enough and a fortnight to three weeks is probably the best theoretical period.”
which of the following are typical components of a research paper?
which of the following are usually included under the method section?
the main elements of the method section include:
the results section typically consists of _____.
to make ooth transitions between two ideas, what transitional strategies can be adopted?
which of the following elements are usually covered in an abstract of a research paper?
which of the following may be the essential components of a lab report?
which of the following visual aids may be relatively more appropriate to present changes over time in a lab report?
simple past tense is usually used in the methods section of a research proposal, and future tense is used in the methods section of a research paper.
i can include the sources i read on the reference page even if i do not use them in my research proposal.
if in the literature review, you have a sentence describing the previous researchers’ actual actions, you should use simple past tense in the sentence.
if a gap statement of a research proposal indicates, “compared to the literature on the use of taiwanese in educational and political settings, little is known about its actual use in mass media setting,” the method the author used to make the statement is unresolved conflict.
the component of a research proposal that describes the steps, materials, and ytic techniques you will use in a research proposal is the literature review component.
researchers tend to be more open to various theories related to the topic of your conference proposal than language teachers.
regarding writing a conference proposal, if you are writing for an audience of language teachers, you might want to use more technical terms to show them your professionali, to discuss more theories, and to use more hedging language.
in a conference proposal, unnecessary repetition means the same message has been delivered more than once.
it is important to explain how you collected and yzed data clearly in your conference proposal so that the conference members know you indeed finished your research.
all the information appearing in a conference proposal does not need to appear in the conference presentation.
in summary writing, the thesis statement (the central idea of the original text) must be given, while the key points are not necessary components of a summary.
the key points in the summary should be reported in the same order of logic as in the original text.
the following citation should be considered plagiari. orginal: because of their unique perspective, americans fear globalization less than anyone else, and as a consequence they think about it less than anyone else. citation: according to lester thurow (1993) americans fear globalization less than people from other countries and as a consequence spend less time thinking about it.
in the sentence “in b. yates' article an american love affair, the author refutes the view that modern societies should eradicate the car because of the many sins it commits”, the reporting verb used here is “eradicate”.
a book review is an article that summarizes the main idea of the book and says if it is a good read or not.
for fictions, we can read them critically by judging the the author’s qualification, the author’s goal, the use of visual aids, etc.
in the critique part of a book review, writers should comment on the weaknesses of the book.
compared with the sentence “the medicine has negative impacts on the treatment of this disease”, the sentence “the medicine might have negative impacts on the treatment of this disease” reduces the certainty of the claim by applying a hedging expression.
when writing the method section, the writer should give enough information for others to replicate the study.
the method section is usually the first section to write for the research paper, because you just finish your study and the method is likely to be clear in your mind.
the best way to describe the steps you followed in your study is usually to follow the chronological order.
when writing the introduction section, the writer should use the passive voice as much as possible, because the action is usually emphasized in this section.
in the results section, you should not repeat the numbers already reported in tables, graphs or diagrams.
when citing the work by over 7 authors, one just list the last name of the first author and add “as cited in” before it.
to cite secondary sources, one should write “et al.”followed by the secondary source in parentheses.
compared with sentence ①, sentence ② makes a better transition between two ideas. ①fearing for the loss of danish lands, christian iv signed the treaty of lubeck, effectively ending the danish phase of the 30 years war. but then something else significant happened. the swedish intervention began. ②fearing for the loss of more danish lands, christian iv signed the treaty of lubeck, effectively ending the danish phase of the 30 years war. shortly after danish forces withdrew, the swedish intervention began.
there are basically two types of abstracts: the elementary ones and the comprehensive ones.
in the abstract of a research paper, just present a couple of important results, and don't try to cram a lot of numbers into this part.
the abstract of a research paper should summarize the highlights of all the sections of the paper.
paralleli usually happens at the word or phrase level, and is rarely used at the clause level.
a lab report explains what you did in an experiment, what you learned and what the results meant.
in most cases, in a lab report, the data from an experiment may be presented in the form of written text with the visual aids like tables and charts.
pie charts may be more visualized to present percentage portions that the other visual aids in a lab report.
nouns may be more frequently used than verbs in a lab report in that a lot of technical terms are included.