Test for postgraduates

The "M" in the acronym IMRaD stands for

Choose the four most important pieces of advice for a writer of academic texts.

A data management plan is a document that describes how data will be acquired and used within a research project. This includes how data will be collected, managed, stored and made available during the study, and how it will be shared after the project is completed. Several templates are available that can be used as the basis for a data management plan.

The FAIR principles describe four key concepts in research data management. Data should be: 

(choose four)

Choose 6 critical stages of grant applications

After investigation of all candidate journals you should find out about the:

(choose 4)

Formal academic English will normally avoid:

The best way to prepare your paper for submission to a journal is to do your research into what the journal wants: visit the journal website and carefully read the journal guidelines for authors; look at a sample of papers from that journal to see how the writers organise their papers, which sources they cite, ...

Who does ‘I’, ‘we’ or ‘our’ mainly refer to in the following excerpts from interdisciplinary journals? Match the excerpts 1-4 with the options A-D. Note that some of these functions overlap.

A. writers who have personally carried out the research

B. writers who are perhaps being critical of others (who have different methods)

C. writers who are being explicit to help the reader understand the meaning of the research

D. writers who are discussing the organisation of their text

Who does ‘I’, ‘we’ or ‘our’ mainly refer to in the following excerpts from interdisciplinary journals? Match the excerpts 1-4 with the options A-D. Note that some of these functions overlap.

A. writers who have personally carried out the research

B. writers who are perhaps being critical of others (who have different methods)

C. writers who are being explicit to help the reader understand the meaning of the research

D. writers who are discussing the organisation of their text

Who does ‘I’, ‘we’ or ‘our’ mainly refer to in the following excerpts from interdisciplinary journals? Match the excerpts 1-4 with the options A-D. Note that some of these functions overlap.

A. writers who have personally carried out the research

B. writers who are perhaps being critical of others (who have different methods)

C. writers who are being explicit to help the reader understand the meaning of the research

D. writers who are discussing the organisation of their text

Who does ‘I’, ‘we’ or ‘our’ mainly refer to in the following excerpts from interdisciplinary journals? Match the excerpts 1-4 with the options A-D. Note that some of these functions overlap.

A. writers who have personally carried out the research

B. writers who are perhaps being critical of others (who have different methods)

C. writers who are being explicit to help the reader understand the meaning of the research

D. writers who are discussing the organisation of their text

Citations play an important role in academic texts. They are used to demonstrate the familiarity of the citing author with the field of investigation, to provide support for his/her research claims or criticism.

Giving credit to cited sources is called......

Manuscript language should be: 

The purpose of this part is to acquaint the reader with the topic of the paper and to attract interest in it. It is an important section of the paper insofar as it is responsible for the first impression the paper produces.

Read the sentences from the article introduction and define which move and step it is?

Every practising foreign/second language (L2) teacher will have experienced occasions when something "goes wrong" with the class—e.g., conflicts or rebellious attitudes emerge, or there is sudden lethargy or complete unwillingness for cooperation on the students' part—and the L2 course becomes a nightmare where teaching is hard if not impossible.At other times, the L2 classroom can turn out to be such a pleasant and inspiring environment that the time spent there is a constant source of success and satisfaction for teachers and learners alike.

Read the sentences from the article introduction and define which move and step it is?

Volunteer mentoring programs have been advocated increasingly as a means of promoting the academic achievement of adolescents who may be at risk for school failure (Campbell-Whatley, Algazzine & Obiakor, 1997; Dondero, 1997; Levine & Nidiffer, 1996; Reglin, 1998; Rogers & Taylor, 1997). Indeed, approximately 5 million youth are involved in school- and community-based volunteer mentoring programs nationwide (McLearn, Colasanto, Schoen & Shapiro, 1999), including more than 100,000 participants in Big Brothers—Big Sisters of America Programs (McKenna, 1998).

Despite the growing popularity of this approach, very little is known about the underlying processes by which mentor relationships affect academic outcomes. In this study, a conceptual model of mentoring was proposed and tested.

The journal abstract performs a number of important functions. Choose 4

Read carefully the abstract in the field of applied mathematics and mark up its moves.

The Rotor-Tip Vortex: Structure and Interactions

1 The helicopter rotor wake is among the most complex structures in aerodynamics.

2 .A large amount of computational and experimental work on the rotor wake has been published and much of a qualitative nature is known about the origin of the two main components of the rotor wake: the tip-vortex and the inboard sheet. 3 However, little of a quantitative nature is known concerning the dependence of the very near wake structure (i.e. the circulation, tip-vortex core radius, and initial tip-vortex orientation) on the independent parameters of the flow such as local flow speed, rotor blade geometry and angle of attack. 4 Here we discuss the main features of the origin of the tip-vortex and interactions, which can occur with the surrounding solid surfaces such as the rotor blades and the helicopter airframe. 5 The problem is approached from both an experimental and computational perspective. 6 Of particular interest is the case where the vortex directly impacts a rotor blade or fuselage, in which a portion of the vortex core can be destroyed locally. 7 We call this a vortexsurface collision, and the behavior of the pressure and swirl velocity within the vortex are described in several examples.

Insert the omitted verbs (that are below the text) into the meta -textual phrases of the review summary.

1 The book is_____into five units, each of which examines one aspect of language

and how it works in texts. 2 Unit 1, 'Signs and sounds,' ___a large range of signs and symbols and their relations with their meaning. 3 Unit 2, 'Words and things', ___at vocabulary and the way it is used. 4 It ____some basic metalanguage for dealing with this area (e.g. morpheme, polysemy, homophones). 5 Unit 3 looks at sentences and structures,____ how grammatical patterns contribute to the meaning of works such as Edwin Morgan's Off Course, and the beginning of Bleak House. 6 It also____ such areas as the variations in prevalent grammatical patterns between different newspapers. 7 Unit 4, 'Written discourse', ___with exercises designed to show students how much they already know about discoursal features of texts. 8 The unit____ with a section on information structure and the way grammatical features enhance that structure. 9 Unit 5, 'Spoken discourse',_____ the basic concepts of speech acts, storytelling, speeches, and various aspects of conversations. 10 The book also ____a glossary, providing short definitions of terms used.

The structure for the English journal abstract, as suggested by Mauro B. dos Santos (1996), includes the moves. Choose 5

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