University Writing (Mostly)

Understanding Uni Writing

100

University writing is often associated with this adjective, synonymous with "fancy" or "proper"

Formal

200

These words are actually combinations of two other words and should be avoided in university-level writing

Contractions

300

Explain why we should avoid words like "good" and provide three synonyms

There are too vague

Beneficial, helpful, useful, productive, fruitful, positive, etc.

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.

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.

Miscellany

100

What has four legs and goes "woof"

A dog!!

200

Two students in this class are in Grade 12, three are in Grade 9

Find the mean and median grade level of the class (answers should be whole numbers)

Mean = 5.2

Median = 9

300

Name three Canadian provinces/terriories and their capitals (Alberta doesn't count)

400

Who painted this?

Edvard Munch

500

Everybody answers, you have forty-five seconds to name as many animals as you can, whoever has the most gets the points

Citation Conondrums

100

Writing someone else's ideas in your own words is known as (starts with a "p")

Paraphrasing

200

Taking other people's writing/ideas without proper citation is commonly knonw as (starts with a "p")

Plaigirism

300

Correct the mistakes in this citation (two mistakes)

(smith 2024)

(Smith, 2024)

400

If we reference the author earlier in the sentence, our citation can consist solely of this

The publication date

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