Practice quiz: Before writing

4 questions. Pick an answer to see if it is right. You can try as many times as you like. These are for practice: the final test has different questions.

1. 1.What should you be able to write before starting a paper?

   The references"This paper shows that..." in one sentenceThe acknowledgementsThe page count
2. 2.Why outline a paper around its figures?

   Figures are easier to writeMany readers mainly look at figures, and it fixes the story's logic firstJournals require itIt shortens the methods
3. 3.The 'curse of knowledge' means...

   knowing too littlefinding it hard to imagine what a reader doesn't knowplagiarismwriter's block
4. 4.You called them 'participants' on page 2. On page 5 you should call them...

   subjectspeopleparticipantsusers