Study Activities in University
In order to help college and university students in the process of learning, four key study activities have
been designed and used to encourage them to make knowledge their own.
Ⅰ essay writing: central focus of university work esp. in the humanities,
e.g.(l) (1) ______
Benefits: 1) helping to select interesting content in books and to
express understanding.
2) enabling teachers to know progress and to offer (2) ______ (2) ______
3) familiarizing students with exam forms.
Ⅱ seminars and classroom discussion: another form to internalize
knowledge in specialized contexts.
Benefits: 1) (3) ______ enables you to know the effectiveness of your (3) ______
expression and others’ response to your speech immediately.
2) Within the same period of time, more topics can be dealt with than
in (4) ______ (4) ______
3) The use of a broader range of knowledge is encouraged.
Ⅲ individual tutorials: a substitute for group discussion.
Format: from teacher (5) ______ to flexible conversation. (5) ______
Benefit: encouraging ideas and interaction.
Ⅳ lectures: a most (6) ______ used study activity. (6) ______
Disadvantages: 1) less (7) ______ than discussions or tutorials. (7) ______
2) more demanding in note-taking.
Advantages: 1) providing a general (8) ______ of a subject under discussion. (8) ______
2) offering more easily understood versions of a theory.
3) updating students on (9) ______ developments. (9) ______
4) allowing students to following different (10) ______. (10) ______