WorksheetsVocabulary: study and academic work
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 16mins
This is Steve. Read what he has to say and check all of the answers that apply to him. Note: you can click on the picture to zoom it in.
cramming for the exam
using mnemonics
looking at past papers
rote-learning
learning by heart
This is Connor. Read what he has to say and check all of the answers that apply to him. Note: you can click on the picture to zoom it in.
looking at past papers
using mnemonics
revising for the exam
burying himself in his books
knowing the subjects inside out
When we are writing an essay, we can lay our ideas out using a ____. Before writing up our final version, we should have at least one rough version, called the ___ ___. We need to be careful about quoting to avoid ____. Most professors ask us to ____ our work by a certain date, so we have to be careful not to miss the ____. In the end, they will ____ our essays and give us some positive or negative ____.
* write just the missing word(s), separated by commas *
(a)
Which of these things should university academics do? There is more than one correct answer.
write compositions
drop out of college
read academic journals
bury themselves in books
carry out research
What is an inter-library loan?
a system where libraries borrow money from one another
a system where libraries exhange books/journals with one another
a special type of loan libraries get from banks
federal funding support for libraries
A long (10-15 000 words), research based work for a degree or diploma is called...
a thesis
a portfolio
a dissertation
a composition
A very long (80-100 000 words), original, research-based work, for a higher degree (e.g. PhD) is called...
an essay
an SMS
a love letter
a thesis
Which one are you?
right
right
