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Textbook vs Bookwork - What's the difference?

textbook | bookwork |

As nouns the difference between textbook and bookwork

is that textbook is a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges while bookwork is accounts, book keeping work.

As an adjective textbook

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

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.

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    bookwork

    English

    Noun

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  • Accounts, book keeping work
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 27, author=Kelvin Healey, title=Poker pro Tony Hachem slams ATO tax raid , work=Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.}}
  • The art and science of formatting books.
  • * {{quote-book, 1976, title=Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 5, author=Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent
    • , passage=The development of a typesetting program suite for general bookwork calls for very close cooperation between typographer and programmer.}}
  • Work done with the aid of textbooks
  • * {{quote-book, 2008, title=School Management and School Methods, author=Joseph Baldwin citation
    • , passage=The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools.}}
  • The act of memorising information; (used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought)
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, title=Five years in an English university, author=Charles Astor Bristed citation
    • , passage=The proportion of problems to bookwork done by the candidates is very various. The latter shows more reading, the former evince more natural Mathematical ability.}}

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