Repeating single nouns must be prevented in academic writing, to avoid imprecision and ambiguity.
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- A grouping ambiguity is _________. A: a peculiar kind of semantic ambiguity. B: a peculiar kind of syntactic ambiguity. C: neither a kind of semantic ambiguity, nor a kind of syntactic ambiguity. D: a structural vagueness.
- What kind of ambiguity exists in the sentence "John is a lion" A: Lexical ambiguity. B: Structural ambiguity. C: Metaphorical ambiguity. D: D. Logic ambiguity.
- In the Academic Writing part, Alex discussed with Ruoqi on academic skills, such as ______. A: plagiarism, paraphrasing and summarizing B: plagiarism, paraphrasing and synthesizing C: how to avoid plagiarism, paraphrase and summarize D: how to avoid plagiarism, paraphrase and synthesize
- 5.To avoid unintended ambiguity
- What should you avoid in academic writing? A: objectivity B: formal terms C: vague terms D: punctuation