Academic Writing Directions: Use Your Knowledge of Writing, Editing, and the Conventions of the Conventions

question 9

Multiple Choice

Academic Writing Directions:
Use your knowledge of writing, editing, and the conventions of grammar to answer the following questions.
Which of the following types of context clues can help identify unfamiliar words in a text?​

• A) ​definitions built into the text
• B) ​words in a series
• C) ​synonyms
• D) ​all of the above

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Definitions:

Real-life Settings

Environments or situations that occur in the natural course of an individual's life, as opposed to controlled experimental conditions.

Laboratory Controls

Procedures or conditions that are used in experiments to ensure that the results are due to the independent variable being tested, and not to external factors.

Correlational Method

A research strategy that involves observing the relationship between two or more variables without manipulating them.

Variables

Variables are any characteristics, numbers, or quantities that can be measured or quantified and that can vary across subjects, time, or any other dimension in a study or experiment.