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Textbook vs Monograph - What's the difference?

textbook | monograph |

As nouns the difference between textbook and monograph

is that textbook is a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges while monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.

As an adjective textbook

is of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.

As a verb monograph is

to write a monograph on (a subject).

textbook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
  • * 1917 , George Ransom Twiss, A textbook in the principles of science teaching?
    • It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.
  • * 2000 , Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence?
    • They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
  • * 2004 , David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela?
    • ...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.
  • Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
  • * 1997 , Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa?
    • It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.
  • * 2003 , Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay?
    • Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook , its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...
  • * 2003 , Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy?
    • In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

    Quotations

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    monograph

    English

    (wikipedia monograph)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
    • I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.'' Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", ''The Atlantic Monthly , March 1996, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To write a monograph on (a subject).
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 26, author=Charles Isherwood, title=A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It is among the most studied, monographed , celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. }}

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