Genres
An independently written text of a few pages that students submit as class assignments
What is an essay?
A useful visual aid that illustrates how a whole is divided into parts
What is a pie chart?
A piece of text that typically consists of several sentences
What is a paragraph?
Chicago and APA
What is a style guide or a manual of style?
When a text is balanced and does not favour a specific viewpoint
What is an objective text?
A longer academic text that students submit at the end their degree studies
What is a thesis?
When a number or the amount of something becomes three times as much
What does "to treble" mean?
A summary of an article
What is an abstract?
References must be presented in a specific order
What does "alphabetical" mean?
When the text flows nicely and each sentence seems to belong in it.
What is cohesion?
Material concerning new research that academics present at conferences
What is a conference paper?
When 20% of respondents possess a certain quality
What does "every fifth respondent" mean?
The empty space before the first line of a paragraph
What is an indentation?
Authors' names, title, date of publication, page numbers
What information must be included in references?
When a sentence is formulated in such a way that the reader does not know who performs a certain action, or when that information is not relevant
What is passive voice?
A work composed of several peer-reviewed papers and an introduction that post-graduate students defend at the end of their studies
What is an article-based dissertation?
When the value of something drops sharply
What does "to plummet" mean?
Extra information that follows the title
What is the subtitle?
The synonym of references
What is bibliography?
The way of measuring whether a text is easy to understand or not
What is a readability score?
An opinion that an expert prepares about another expert's work
What is a review?
A way of presenting information by dividing it into rows and columns that represent different categories
What is a table?
The font alteration used to distinguish a title of a book or an article from the rest of the text
What is italics?
The strategy of presenting information by paraphrasing somebody else's words
What is indirect speech?
When a researcher examines an idea carefully and thoroughly, and provides their own insight on the subject
What is the meaning of "critical"?