Understanding Uni Writing
Miscellany
Citation Conondrums
100
University writing is often associated with this adjective, synonymous with "fancy" or "proper"
Formal
100
What has four legs and goes "woof"
A dog!!
100
Writing someone else's ideas in your own words is known as (starts with a "p")
Paraphrasing
200
These words are actually combinations of two other words and should be avoided in university-level writing
Contractions
200
Two students in this class are in Grade 12, three are in Grade 9
Mean = 5.2
Median = 9
200
Taking other people's writing/ideas without proper citation is commonly knonw as (starts with a "p")
Plaigirism
300
Explain why we should avoid words like "good" and provide three synonyms
There are too vague
Beneficial, helpful, useful, productive, fruitful, positive, etc.
300
Name three Canadian provinces/terriories and their capitals (Alberta doesn't count)
300
Correct the mistakes in this citation (two mistakes)
(smith 2024)
(Smith, 2024)
400
Rewrite this sentence so it meets the standards for university-level writing (one mistake):
I believe that Hinton was one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
Hinton was one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
400
Who painted this?
Edvard Munch
400
If we reference the author earlier in the sentence, our citation can consist solely of this
The publication date
500
Rewrite this sentence so it meets the standards for university-level writing (two mistakes):
Hinton's influence can't be understated, a lot of the things that are popular in the genre now can be traced back to her.
Hinton's influence can not be understated, a lot of the books that are popular in the genre now can be traced back to her.
500
Everybody answers, you have forty-five seconds to name as many animals as you can, whoever has the most gets the points
500
Name two pieces of punctuation that always goes inside the quotations marks, and a piece of punctuation that can go on the inside or outside
Always inside: commas, periods
Depends: question mark, exclamation mark