Study the Essential Vocabulary of the text; use it while doing the assignments that follow

1) to hang about the student lounge

2) to turn up for most lectures and tutorials

3) to submit all the coursework

4) to mind the attendance record

5) to become some sort of social outcast

6) to scribble notes madly

7) to spend every waking moment immersed in academic books

8) to be mystified by the syllabus or assignments

9) to work hard on the things that count

10) to have a feel for the education market

11) to sell one’s inspirations

12) an unwelcome interruption to the academic work

13) to deliberately pitch essays or reports to what teachers expect to get

14) to make the key contributions to the debate rather than sit reticently

15) to pull down monuments rather than rake over familiar ground

16) to prefer a fact-based academic dispute to an inspirational debate

17) to copy from the fellow-students’ essay

18) to care little for plagiarising and its moral aspect

19) to take books out on long loan

20) to seek shortcuts to save the bother of reading the original texts

21) to flick through the books, pluck out what is needed and switch to another activity

22) to be spontaneous and open-minded rather than using pre-formed conclusions

23) to condense the information onto separate sheets of paper for quick access

24) to concentrate on the condensed notes only

25) to strike the right balance between working and enjoying oneself

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