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A thousand words and phrases for study, school and university, grouped by topic rather than scattered through the alphabet, each one defined in plain English, used in a real sentence and explained with a usage note. Twenty sections cover the school day, classrooms and lessons, teachers and students, subjects, homework, reading and note-taking, writing essays, research and sources, referencing and academic honesty, exams and revision, marks and feedback, qualifications, applying to university, campus life, lectures and seminars, group work and presentations, learning support, focus and procrastination, student money, and finishing. The usage note is the part other glossaries leave out: the word it is constantly confused with, the preposition it takes, and the practical point the definition alone does not give you. Thirty pairs of confusable terms are set out side by side, including a mark and a grade, a lecture and a seminar, describe and analyse, plagiarism and collusion, rereading and retrieval, and a transcript and a certificate. No institution, examination or national system is named anywhere, so the book works wherever the reader is studying, and where something is genuinely local it says what to check. At the back there is an alphabetical index of all one thousand entries and twenty patterns worth learning whole. Volume nine of A Thematic Dictionary.
A thousand words and phrases for study, school and university, grouped by topic rather than scattered through the alphabet, each one defined in plain English, used in a real sentence and explained with a usage note. Twenty sections cover the school day, classrooms and lessons, teachers and studen...
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Alex Carter writes practical reference books for people who use English at work and in everyday life. Each volume of A Thematic Dictionary groups the words that belong together, defines them in plain English, shows every one of them in a sentence, and adds the usage note that ordinary word lists leave out.
Alex Carter writes practical reference books for people who use English at work and in everyday life. Each volume of A Thematic Dictionary groups the words that belong together, defines them in plain English, shows every one of them in a sentence, and adds the usage note that ordinary word lists ...
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