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Higher Education

Communicating for Results, 2e: Chapter 3

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the "Submit my answers" button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) simplicity
b) directness
c) intricacy
d) clarity

Question 2:


a) using ambiguous language
b) avoiding passive-voice constructions
c) distancing the subject from the verb
d) avoiding the use of personal pronouns

Question 3:


a) words with a French derivative
b) foreign expressions
c) words that substitute -ize and -ization endings
d) important sounding words

Question 4:


a) cliches
b) emoticons
c) slang
d) All of the above.

Question 5:


a) specific qualitative statements
b) abstract language
c) ambiguous language
d) non-idiomatic statements

Question 6:


a) adding extended verb phrases
b) inserting redundancies
c) revising empty words and phrases
d) including prepositional phrases

Question 7:


a) Lee-Sun gave an entertaining presentation.
b) The formal report was written by a team.
c) The proposal addressed the competition.
d) Redundancies create unnecessary wordiness.

Question 8:


a) connotation
b) denotation
c) contraction
d) detraction

Question 9:


a) short sentences
b) passive voice
c) personal pronouns
d) first names and personal references

Question 10:


a) expressing yourself positively
b) stressing reader benefits
c) incorporating a "you-attitude"
d) All of the above.