5 Tips to Improve Your Writing

This is for Advanced learners.
And this material for Audio-Visual learners.
Based on the video, I've already prepared the exercises and also the answer key.

 Exercise of 5 Tips to Improve Your Writing

1.      Make the following sentence more academic and formal:
Adults can't learn a language in the same manner as babies.
a.      It is already formal. It doesn’t need to be changed.
b.      Change the sentence to the passive voice: A language cannot be learned by adults in the same manner as babies.
c.       Change the can’t to cannot: Adults cannot learn a language in the same manner as babies.
2.      Make this sentence more formal:
Shakespeare wrote plays really often.
a.      This sentence is formal. It doesn’t need to be changed.
b.      We should not use the word “really”: Shakespeare wrote plays often.
c.       We should use the passive voice: Plays were written by Shakespeare really often.
d.      We should not use the word “really”. Instead we should use the academic word “very”: Shakespeare wrote plays very often.
3.      Improve this sentence to make it more appropriate for an academic essay:
War was declared on Germany by England in 1939.
a.      This sentence is fine the way it is.
b.      Use the active voice instead of the passive when writing academic sentences: England declared war on Germany in 1939.
The passive voice is common in scientific writing but not other disciplines such as history.
c.       Use “there was”: There was a was declared on Germany by England in 1939.
4.      There are many children in the world who do not have access to clean water.
a.      This sentence is fine the way it is.
b.      The sentence is more concise if you cut out "there are": Many children in the world do not have access to clean water.
c.       Change many to a lot: There are a lot of children in the world who do not have access to clean water.
d.      Use the contraction "don't": There are many children in the world who don't have access to clean water.
5.      Bullets were fired at the crowd by soldiers.
a.   This sentence is fine.
b.   Use "there were": There were bullets fired at the crowd by soldiers.
c.    Use the active voice: Soldiers fired bullets at the crowd.
d.   Use "so": Bullets were so fired at the crowd by soldiers.
6.      The researchers conducted an investigation on whether video games are too violent for children.
a.      This sentence is fine.
b.      Change the sentence to "The researchers investigated whether video games are too violent for children."
c.       Change the sentence to "The researchers investigated on whether video games are too violent for children."
7.      Psychologists did a study on the difference between boys' and girls' learning styles.
a.      The sentence is fine.
b.      Psychologists did on the difference between boys' and girls' learning styles.
c.       Psychologists studied the difference between boys' and girls' learning styles.
d.      Psychologists studied on the difference between boys' and girls' learning styles.
8.      We observed a very large difference between the treatment group and the control.
a.      The sentence is fine.
b.      We should change the word observed to its noun form: We made an observation on a very large difference between the treatment group and the control.
c.       We should remove the word "very": We observed a large difference between the treatment group and the control.
9.      The virus didn't infect the cells.
a.      This sentence is fine.
b.      We should not use a contraction: The virus did not infect the cells.
c.       We should use the word really: The virus didn't really infect the cells.
10.  The symbolism in Romeo and Juliet is so significant in many ways.
a.      This sentence is fine.
b.      We should use a lot instead of many: The symbolism in Romeo and Juliet is so significant in a lot of ways.
c.       We should not use "so" to add emphasis: The symbolism in Romeo and Juliet is significant in many ways.

ANSWER KEY
1.      C
2.      B
3.      B
4.      B
5.      C
6.      B
7.      C
8.      C
9.      B
10.  C


(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgkRoYPLhts)

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