MCQ Bank
All of these are included in the format of manuscript EXCEPT:
- A) Abstract
- B) Date line
- C) Title page
- D) Flap
APA Manual stands for which of the following?
- A) American Publishing Association Manual
- B) American Proofreaders Association Manual
- C) American Psychological Association Manual
- D) American Professional’s Association Manual
Which one of the following refers to the signal words?
- A) "Signal words" give hints about what is about to happen in what you're reading.
- B) "Signal words" always come at the end of a sentence.
- C) "Signal words" are all about “directions” only.
- D) "Signal words"are not for quality English wiring.
“Fuzz Signal” words, e.g. almost, are used to elaborate which one of the following actions?
- A) Idea is not exact, or author is not positive and wishes to qualify a statement.
- B) Writer is telling a lie.
- C) The statement seems false.
- D) Writer is trying to convince the reader.
“Time Signals” are used for which of the following actions?
- A) Direction of subject
- B) Minutes and Hours
- C) To comment on someone’s action
- D) When is it happening?
The other name for “False Dilemma” is:
- A) Hasty Generalization
- B) Slippery slope
- C) Bifurcation
- D) Red Herring
Which of the following refers to appeal to reason by using facts, statistics, research, logical arguments, etc?
- A) Pathos
- B) Logos
- C) Ethos
- D) Thesis
The art of finding the best available means of moving a specific audience in a specific situation to a specific decision is known as:
- A) Persuasion
- B) Propaganda
- C) Personification
- D) Perception
Which of the following citations has followed the MLA style manual rules?
- A) Tommasini, A. (1998, October 27). Master teachers whose artistry glows in private New York Times page B2
- B) Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. New York: Random House, 1996.
- C) Klein, J. (1998, October 5). Dizzy days The New Yorker pages 40-45
- D) O’Connor. (1990). Express Yourself in Written English. Illinois: NTS
OSPI is an abbreviation of:
- A) Original Text, Summary, Paraphrase, Interpretation
- B) Original Test, Summary, Presentation, Index
- C) Original Text, Summary, Preposition, Indention
- D) Original Text, Story, Preposition, Interpretation
MLA style manual is widely used in the research papers. MLA stands for:
- A) Mississippi Laborer’s Association
- B) Modern Language Association
- C) Music Listener’s Association
- D) Medical Library Association
Which of the following type of writing invloves usually story telling?
- A) Cause and effect writing
- B) Contrast writing
- C) Narrative writing
- D) Comparative writing
In research writing, which of the following is a serious offense that may result into punishment?
- A) Sleep in the library
- B) Scratching the pages from a book
- C) Steeling a book from the library
- D) Plagiarism
Correlation implies:
- A) Division
- B) Complex question
- C) Causation
- D) False cause and effect
Which of the following writing is the act of or art of writing, to describe things?
- A) Memo
- B) Narrative
- C) Descriptive
- D) Report
Which statement truly defines the “Continuation Signals Words”?
- A) They are a warning that there are more ideas to come.
- B) They break ideas of the writer.
- C) They diminish the continuity among the paragraphs.
- D) They give literary touch to the writing.
Comma (,) is used:
- A) Before a coordinating conjunction
- B) At the end of a sentence
- C) At the beginning of a noun
- D) At the end of the subject
A mode of writing in which the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader is termed as:
- A) Expository writing
- B) Comparative writing
- C) Cause and effect writing
- D) None of the given options
The abbreviation “intr” stands for which one of the following options?
- A) Intransitive verbs
- B) Intrusive words
- C) Interjection
- D) Introductory verb
Which of the following speech article is capitalized in English language in a sentence?
- A) Common nouns
- B) Verbs
- C) Adjectives
- D) Adverbs