Quiz : Style Specifies (Part1)

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Select the correct sentences regarding the titles and headings of papers.

Title of a paper should be concise and informative

Title of a paper should be a complete sentence

Headings below the level of sub sections should be inline.

It is best to use only two levels of headings

Select the example/s that is most suitable to start an abstract or an introduction

In this paper we describe a new programming language with matrix manipulation operators.

Most numerical computation is dedicated to manipulation of matrices, but matrix operations are difficult to implement efficiently in current high-level programming languages. In this paper we describe a new programming language with matrix manipulation operators.

Use of digital libraries is increasingly common.

It is important that the cost of disk accesses be reduced in query processing

Which of the following sentences are correct regarding the paragraphing in papers.

The outline or the argument is typically captured in the first sentence of each paragraph, with the rest of the paragraph used for amplification or example, while the last sentence should have a higher impact than those in the body

Linking paragraphs by reuse of key words or paraphrases is a solution to the problem of contextual information being forgotten between paragraphs

Formatted lists which is an alternative to paragraphing can be used for material that is both significant and in need of enumeration

The text should be divided into uniform sized paragraphs

Select the incorrect sentences regarding the sentence structure in papers.

Nested content in parentheses in sentences should be omitted or put in a separate sentence

Sing song phrases, rhymes and alliteration can be used to attract the readers

Double negatives in a sentence can be difficult to parse and are ambiguous.

Longer sentences can be divided by replacing an “and” or a semicolon within fullstops

"Complementary concepts should be explained as parallels."

Which of the below examples is a better structured parallel denoting two complementary concepts?

In SIMD, the same instructions are applied simultaneously to multiple data sets, whereas in MIMD different data sets are processed with different instructions.

In SIMD, multiple data sets are processed simultaneously by the same instructions, whereas in MIMD multiple data sets are processed simultaneously by different instructions

Which of the following sentences are correct regarding the use of emphasis in papers.

Capitals should be used for emphasis.

Explicit stress can be provided with italics

Words like “emphatic”, “certainly”, “indeed” can be used to provide emphasis

Reorganisation of a sentence can change the emphasis

Select the correct sentences regarding the use of definitions in papers.

It can be helpful to give multiple explanations or illustrations of unfamiliar concepts.

Terminology, variables, abbreviations, and acronyms are not required to be defined the first time they are used

A new terminology should be introduced in a consistent format

A discursion is a technique that can be used to motivate a definition

Select the correct practices that should be followed in choosing words for paper writing.

Should avoid sloppy looking abbreviations and contractions

Making excessive claims about own work is unacceptable

Specific and familiar words should be used instead of abstract, vague, or broad terms

Should only use the words that the writer is sure of the meaning