Succeed As A Student

1 INTRODUCTION AND HOUSEKEEPING POINTS WHERE TO LIVE

`There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.' (Quentin Crisp, Naked Civil Servant, 1968, chap. 15).

If you are not living at home with your family, you will need to find somewhere to live. You should consider university accommodation as your first choice. It will be easier for you, particularly if this is your first time away from home. You will be close to where you want to be, transport will be less of a problem and you will have lots of other students around. There are several different types of accommodation offered. You can apply for a small serviced Single Catered Room with all meals provided, which saves you cooking but is dearer. In 1994, these cost $153 per week, for a seventeen or eighteen week semester. Alternatively, you can apply for a self-contained flat for four, six, seven or eight persons. These are cheaper than a room including meals. In 1994, these cost $82-$92 a week per person. In this shared type of accommodation you are responsible for doing your own cooking and washing up. Not everyone who applies can move into University accommodation, owing to its popularity among students.

Renting a bed-sitting room from a private family is also a possibility, This may or may not have food supplied, depending on the price charged and what terms you agree. An alternative is to share a house or flat off-campus with other students. This is often more desirable later, when you have gained experience, started to spread your wings a little and perhaps wish to flap them more. Note that the more people you share with, the cheaper it becomes for each, but the downside is that it gets noisier and the distractions increase. For some reason if you double the number of people the distractions seem to increase geometrically. When you share with others, you might also find that managing the group finances will be a problem: some may not come up with the rent on time, or pay their full share of things such as the electricity, while food stored in the fridge may mysteriously disappear and everyone then looks at everyone else suspiciously. The telephone bills often seem to be higher than the total that people recorded when they made their calls. Keeping a kitty of money may help to cover such shared expenses as washing up liquid and washing powder.

When signing an agreement to rent a house or flat, you will need to put up a bond, often equal to four weeks' rent, which the landlord will lodge with the Rental Bond Authority. Before you move in, you will be asked to sign a list of house/flat contents and agree to a description of their condition. When you leave, at the end of your tenancy agreement or later, the place will be checked and if all is as you found it, you will get the bond back. This means that you should either clean the place carefully, or hire a professional cleaner to do this for you. If you break things or do something like spilling paint on the rug then the replacement or cleaning will be stopped out of your bond. If your group leaves before the end of the agreement, then the bond is usually forfeited. The bond is held by an official authority, as in the past some unscrupulous landlords often kept the bond entirely. These days it is easier for you the tenant.

You will also be expected to pay a month's rent in advance. This means that you will need to pay a lot of money up front - usually two months' rent, consisting of one for the bond and one for the first month, as well as enough money for the basics that you will need to buy. If you cannot afford this, then consider whether you are ready to rent a house/unit yet. Naturally, if there are, say, three of you sharing, then you only need to find a third of the two months' rent yourself.

Whether taking lodgings or sharing a house, the area you choose to live in should have good access to the University and, unless you have a motorcar, ought to be near public transport. As Griffith is not on a railway line, and Brisbane has no Metro, this means a bus route. Try to find somewhere on a direct bus route. If you have to change buses to get to the University, the journey will take considerably more time. If you miss your normal bus change owing to a delayed first bus, you might miss lectures or important appointments.

In a shared house, someone has to cook. A cooking roster may work well, but too often you will find that one member of the group can only cook something like baked beans on toast, which, even ignoring certain antisocial side effects, rapidly tends to get very monotonous. Someone else may mysteriously have appointments or late classes on just those days of the week that they are supposed to do the cooking. If things are not going well in the group it often originates, or shows, in the field of domestic drudgery, and especially around the area of food. Arguments may arise or relationships get strained. Eventually a change in the composition of the group may be called for and you may have to ask someone to leave. However, it is always embarrassing telling someone to go on the grounds that the others are fed up with their behaviour. It is even worse if there is a factional split, with two groups in opposition. As a rule of thumb, the one whose name is on the lease is in the stronger position and wins any confrontation.

You might well need to buy a simple cookbook. This can significantly improve the quality of your life. Should you be new to cooking, make sure it has definitions of simple terms, like `saute', `parboil', or `casserole', and also tells you how to do the simple things. If you are a beginner you will need basic information from the book, such as that you should cut up potatoes before boiling them, in order to reduce the cooking time. Unless you have some experience, you should avoid any book with recipes that say things like `prepare the cabbage in the usual way...' as it will confuse rather than assist you. Later you can handle more advanced cookbooks. Books by authors that say `Cook until tender' without indicating if your are likely to be hanging around for twenty minutes or three hours should also be avoided. You can often get good cookbooks at reduced prices in the cut price book shops that specialise in the disposal of remainders, i.e., publishers' leftover stocks. If you are new to Brisbane, you can ask someone where to find such a shop. You might note that such shops tend to have words like `Warehouse' or `Disposals' as part of their name. Many stores promoting their wares advertise in the Saturday edition of the Courier Mail. Garage sales sometimes produce good ones too, at very cheap prices also. For those newcomers to town, garage sales are where householders sell surplus goods they own, traditionally on a Saturday morning, piling them up in the garage and sometimes spilling over onto the lawn. Garage sales are advertised in their own column, also on a Saturday in the Courier Mail.

If you eat in the Refectory, note that a serving of french-fries on its own is not a particularly healthy meal - you should try to eat sensibly. For male students, in some cases this may mean deliberately eating more fruit and vegetables; for some female ones it sometimes might mean making sure that you eat enough or eat some balanced meals as well as all those simple salads. We are all subject to social pressures, even if we do not realise it. Lord Atlee in Britain once claimed that we are all prisoners of our environment. He was, I believe, wrong in putting it as strongly as `prisoners', but we are certainly victims of it. Many students seem to aim at ensuring they eat one decent cooked meal a day and get by for the other two. If you buy the cooked meal commercially, which is tempting if money allows, note that overcooking can destroy nutrients and home cooked is often better, despite the efforts of fast food chains to persuade you otherwise. A bar of chocolate gives you quick energy but should not be regarded as a proper meal substitute.

Note that it pays not to skimp on breakfast. If you get hungry by midmorning you might be tempted to buy expensive and not particularly healthy snacks to fill the void. You will probably find it difficult to concentrate in classes if there is a gnawing feeling in your stomach. Muesli is a good, healthy, quick, and easy way to start the day and provides a substantial and cheap meal. The commercial mueslis are often light on nice additives like dried fruit and nuts. Health food stores sell better Muesli than supermarkets. It is often worth paying a little more there to get a better Muesli, as on a per meal basis, the difference is small. If you buy a supermarket Muesli, you can and add things like sultanas, currants, chopped up dates, figs, and a variety of nuts, or whatever else you fancy. Adding a chopped-up apple or other fresh fruit to the dish at the actual meal is a particularly good thing to do and improves the food balance. The initial outlay may look large, but per meal the cost is actually low. Real Muesli enthusiasts buy all the raw materials like oats, and cracked wheat, and start the mixture from scratch, but beginning with a commercial Muesli, although a little more expensive, is easier and requires less up-front expenditure. You might find that such an augmented Muesli keeps you going longer before you get hungry and note that you might need to eat rather less of it than you think.

Remember that if you share a house or live on your own, you will need things like bedding, cutlery, a kettle, pots and pans, and cleaning materials at once and these can add up to a large sum. Do not forget you will also need an iron and, in particular, a reliable alarm clock. All mains-electric ones fail if there is even a brief power cut. Weekend markets are often a good source of cheap items, as are charitable `opportunity shops', and garage sales. Paddy's Market in New Farm offers cheap items too, especially recycled clothing.

You should make a personal budget for expenses such as food, books, and transport as soon as possible and try to stick to it. If you find that you cannot do so and keep over running the budget, then try adjusting the balance between items. If you still cannot balance the budget, you may need to think about getting financial help from your parents, looking for part-time work, or taking out a student loan. You should have already investigated the AUSTUDY, details of which can be obtained from the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training or from the University. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students can apply for ABSTUDY help, from the same department or from the Gummuri Centre. If you have to consider getting a part time job to keep you eating and enjoying life, you should be aware that they are often hard to find in the current recession with high rates of unemployment. When you are successful in the search and are offered a casual and part time work it may be at below standard rates of pay. Student loans are not popular with many as they will have to be repaid at some stage, but with a degree you have a better chance of earning a big enough salary to do this and it could be some years before you actually have to start repaying. You should check the current rules with the bank, as they may change from time to time.

TRANSPORT:

`The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound.' (Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964, p.7).

You will need to consider transport, especially if not living on campus. If you have a car, you might cut expenses by sharing rides and getting some money from those to whom you give a lift to go towards registration, insurance, petrol and maintenance. Motorcycles are much cheaper to run than motorcars but you are exposed to the elements, motorcycles are more dangerous, and you can carry less with you. Should you have no car or motorcycle then, unless living within walking distance, it means using the buses, cycling, or finding a lift. If using buses, obtain a copy of the University bus timetables, and any others you need, from the Brisbane City Council's Department of Transport office in the city. The timetables are supplied free. You will find that some buses to and from the University are very full and you have to stand, or even that you cannot get on and have to wait until the City Council sends another one along. The driver of the full bus informs the centre on his radio that there are still people waiting and another bus is despatched, but this process takes time. The Express buses are considerably faster than the normal ones if you are going into the city. You can either pay for each bus journey you make, or else purchase a bus pass. The pass is often slightly cheaper and is a lot more convenient than finding the money every day and paying the driver. Whether it is much cheaper, or possibly even dearer, depends on how often you use the pass. You should take note of how often you typically use the bus and decide which is the cheapest way to pay in your particular case. In 1994 a student pass which allows unlimited travel by bus and ferry costs $399 a year, $199 a semester or $49 a month.

Cycling is cheap, rather energetic, especially in the humid heat of summer, and can be dangerous, given the way many Brisbane motorists drive. The exercise is however good for you. You must wear a safety helmet. If you bring a cycle in to the University, make sure it is securely chained up to something solid and nothing of value is left on it, especially if it can easily be removed.

Check the notice boards around the university if you are seeking, or offering, a lift. Those near the Refectory and Student Union may be productive, but do not ignore the boards in each Faculty. If you have your own car, make sure it is properly locked and nothing of obvious value is laying around on the seats. This includes parcels and briefcases, as casual thieves may think they contain something valuable and break into your vehicle, doing a lot of damage, to get something that is worth far less than the damage done. An extra lock, on the steering wheel or pedals is an added deterrent to car thieves. On all university campuses, car thieves are active.

LIVING CHEAPLY:

`Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.' (Anthony Hope, Dolly Dialogues, 1894, no. 12).

Try to save money wherever you can. Remember to turn off all lights in rooms or corridors that you are not using at the time. You will be surprised how high your electricity bills can be, and might equally be surprised how much you can reduce the size of the bill by such measures. Equally, only use the telephone if you really need to do so. Local calls in Brisbane are not charged by time, so that once connected you can keep talking at no extra cost. There are of course some commercial services that charge by the connect time and if you indulge in these the total cost can rapidly mount up. Interstate and international calls are always charged by time. Some government departments and private firms insist that before making a long distance telephone call, the person writes down the points they wish to make. This tends to keep the length of call down and also ensures that staff do not have to ring twice, having forgotten to say something the first time they rang. You could consider doing the same.

Try to cook for yourself whenever possible. Note that buying prepackaged food and prepared food is almost always more expensive than buying the raw materials and cooking for yourself. Eating out in the refectory or restaurants is an expensive way of surviving, but it is convenient and makes a nice occasional treat. Bringing your own sandwiches or other food from where you live to eat at the University is always the cheapest way to eat lunch. If dieting, fruit such as an apple is cheaper if bought from stalls or supermarkets and brought in.

If you must send out for a pizza, it is not cheap and in addition there is usually a minimum charge. Any effort to get you to buy add-ons is best resisted if you do not have much money. The largest sizes of pizza are often cheaper per unit. If you buy a large one and cannot eat it all, wait until it is cold, then immediately wrap the remainder carefully and put it in the 'fridge. Some can stomach it cold the next day, but warming it up is better, although it does dry out a little.

Cooking offers scope for saving real money. When cooking a meal, consider cooking much more than you need and putting the surplus, separated in several small freezer bags, into the freezer. Squeeze out as much air as possible before sealing with the supplied twist-ties. You will find that it is quick and easy to warm up one of these extra meals after a few days have passed and you can face eating the same meal again. Cooking and freezing in this way saves you both time and money. If you are cooking in the oven, see if you can cook two meals at the same time and freeze one down. Let the meal get reasonably cool before putting it into the freezer. Be aware that leftovers can be recycled into tasty meals, so always be loath to throw food away. You can even plan to have leftovers, e.g., by boiling up more potatoes than you need for one meal, putting the surplus into the fridge wrapped in Gladwrap, then slicing and frying them up the next day - delicious! Keep all previously cooked food in the 'fridge, and do not keep food for more than a few days before eating it - it will go off.

If there are more than two of you sharing, you should consider buying a small joint of meat and roasting it. Roasting is a very easy way to cook - any cookbook should tell you the number of minutes needed to roast that quantity and kind of meat. One advantage is not only a tasty meal, but several cold meat meals, sandwiches to take for your University lunch, and possibly soup at the end. Another advantage with a roast is that you can put vegetables alongside the meat and roast them: potatoes, onions, pumpkin, carrots and parsnips are all good cooked that way. As a rule of thumb, if it grows in the ground (or on it like a pumpkin) it can be roasted successfully; if it grows in the air, it cannot. Potatoes and onions take around an hour, the others tend to take less, maybe 35 minutes. Always make soup of poultry by boiling up the carcass in a lot of water with a few vegetables like onions, leeks, carrots or whatever is around. A herb or two helps the flavour. Simmer it for maybe three hours and have either a delicious soup or a great stock to add to casseroles. Cheap cuts of meat normally casserole up nicely - the secret is to cook slowly at low heats and not to fry the bits too much before putting in the casserole.

Vegetarian meals can be very cheap indeed, especially if you like curried beans/peas and the like.

If trying to save money, you are better off avoiding fish as much as possible. It is extremely expensive in Australia, relative to meats. You will find that liver, especially calves' liver that is the best, is cheap relative to other countries and any left over can be made into pate if you have a food processor. Kidneys too are a good buy, but not everyone likes offal, the word itself being a little off-putting.

With the refrigerator, try to open the door as little as possible in the hot weather. Decide what you want to take out before opening the door. One good way to waste money is to stand with the door open, looking around the shelves and wondering what you want to eat or drink. All that delicious cold air that spills over your legs has to be replaced and paid for. You are the one who pays. Similarly, do not place hot food in the 'fridge, where it will warm up the air that you will then pay to cool down again, but let the food cool first. If your 'fridge is a bit old, you might find that the door does not close as well as it once did. Try leaning on the door after you have closed it, as that often presses the door in and makes for a better seal that reduces the amount of electricity needed to keep the contents cool.

If you have a car, try not to use it to go out to buy just one thing or go to one place. Combining several jobs into one journey saves petrol. Petrol in Australia is half the price of Europe and some other countries, but still costs more than you wish to spend. Unless you are rich, which few students are, the habit some people have of driving round on Sundays just for the sake of it should be put in abeyance until you get a job or at least until you have more money. Similarly, consider where you are want to go - if you can walk it, why not do so? The exercise is good for you, and cheap shoes are much cheaper than petrol. If you need to buy one particular brand name good, or model, it is often cheaper, and much quicker, to telephone around, rather than drive from one side of the urban area to another, stopping and looking. `Let your fingers do the walking' is a clever advertising slogan that recommends using the telephone directory Yellow Pages to find the sort of firm you need, then ringing them first.

In winter, be pleased that you live in Brisbane rather than the interior, like Toowoomba, or the south. You need spend nothing on heating bills here, unless you choose. Put on another woollen sweater if cold or do a few exercises. Working in the library is a good option on cold evenings, as you get free heat and improve your learning at the same time.

If you are fortunate enough to have both bath and shower, remember that a shower uses far less water than a bath. Unless you enjoy cold baths, this means that you are paying more to heat up the water if you insist on regular baths. In a Brisbane summer, cold showers are not only more acceptable to many people, but hot ones can be positively unpleasant.

Do not buy new fashionable clothing unless you are determined to look good at all costs. It tends not to last too long, either because it is badly made of cheap material or because fashions change and at some point you may start to feel that you would not be seen dead in it again. Sex is nature's way of ensuring the survival of the species and if you are young, you may feel a compulsion to make an effort to look attractive. If so, you are in the grip of a superior force and can legitimately resist. You do not have to choose one week to be in polka dots, the next week in stripes, nor be a dedicated follower of fashion. But they do not consider this to be an important matter. Dressing simply in sturdy clothing is cheaper, and you do not have to look like a fashion plate while studying. You might decide that you only need one decent outfit, for an annual dance or your graduation ceremony and perhaps what used to be referred to as `an interview suit' to impress when seeking a job before or soon after graduation. If you are only going to wear an outfit once, consider hiring something you like, it will be cheaper.

Unless you have a `thing' about wearing clothes that someone has worn before you, consider buying secondhand ones to save money. You need not worry about dirt or grime, as modern detergents and hot water clean extremely well. There are some excellent bargains to be found. Can I make one plea? You can and probably should cut down your spending on fripperies, inessentials and luxuries, but as a favour to me and to your fellow students, please do not cut out spending on a personal deodorant. The Brisbane climate can be hot, torrid, and sweaty. So can we.

Remember that watching television is free, once you or your group has paid for a TV set, whereas going to the cinema/theatre costs money. There is no TV licence needed in Australia. Note that an evening in a pub can be very expensive, when one adds up the total spent, especially if there is a group playing and an admission fee is charged. Naturally, you should be studying as much as possible and only watching TV or socialising during your scheduled relaxation time (see below on making a personal timetable).

For many people, the simplest and most effective way of living cheaply and not spending money is not to buy things unless you truly need them. There are not many things like that. A very effective way is to stay out of shops. Other than the rare opportunity offered by modern technology to buy from telesellers, those unfortunate people who have to make a living by ringing up total strangers and trying to persuade them to buy something they neither want nor need, you will mostly spend money paying bills and in shops. The bills for electricity etc. keep arriving and must be paid but you can stay out of shops. If you are the sort of person who actually enjoys shopping, and may even have a regular day set aside to do it, do your best to curb your impulses and find something else to do. Once in a shop, you might find that you suddenly desperately need something that you did not even want before you came in and saw it. You might not even have known such a thing existed. Naturally there is a need for minimum survival shopping, bread, milk, vegetables and so on. Be honest. Look in your wardrobe and see just how many clothes you have and calculate how long you could last before having to buy something new in order to avoid freezing to death or comply with the laws of decency.

Equally, you can use the TV remote control to turn the volume way down on the adverts. Since these always sound as if the volume has been turned up, although the stations usually deny this and may say they merely enhance the treble, you are doing your bit against noise pollution as well as removing temptation. Developing the habit of `grazing', i.e., switching channels as soon as the adverts are on to see what it happening elsewhere, may also reduce your exposure to advertising. Marketing people hate grazers, which suggests it may not be at all a bad practice. Never forget that there is an entire industry out there, full of intelligent and dedicated people whose sole job is to separate you from your money in a socially acceptable and legal way. You are on your own against these forces.

SETTLING IN:

`Daily floggings will continue until staff morale improves.' (Notice on a board in a Brisbane office).

It is quite normal to feel uncertain, insecure or plain scared on your arrival. Most also feel other emotions, especially excitement and exhilaration. Do not start to wonder if it will be too much for you and never think of dropping out just because you may feel a bit afraid. Few people really know what a university is or does before they go, and even fewer know in advance what is expected of them. This leads to many new students, especially in their first few days, feeling worried. Fear of the unknown is a common human condition and has, for instance, made both names and money for the makers of horror movies. The information contained here should help you to weather these early storms and hopefully will help to calm you down.

The immense freedom within a university and the lack of coercive authority of the high school also upsets some. Try not to let the taste of freedom get you down - you will survive, as generations of others have done before. Equally, do not let it go to your head and cause you to spend the entire first semester socialising rather than learning. You should see your time at university as an exciting and immense opportunity, as well as a challenge, something you will enjoy, as you grapple with and surmount problems. It is part of growing up to deal with uncertainty and learn from your experiences and mistakes. Remember that you are not alone and everyone around you faces the same dilemmas, however well they may hide their fears. Although the initial newness fades quickly, the whole of the first year is in some way new, and the excitement/confusion feelings may linger on at a diminishing rate. By the second year you will be an old hand, and probably staring at the new first year students as if they were a different species. You will undoubtedly feel a bit superior to them too, if you are anything like a typical student. Incidentally, when you get to second year, resist the temptation to slacken off. Now that you are completely at home and the end is not yet in sight (unlike for third years), some students rather revel in the freedom and their marks may suffer.

Your first day will probably be very busy, as you are enrolled and given information at what might appear to be a great rate. Friendly confusion often seems to abound. You will probably be lectured to by a variety of different people about lots of different things, some of which you will actually remember. Do not let the fact that you forget some of it and do not see the relevance of other bits get you down. Once through the Orientation Week, university life is different and better.

It is important not to spend your first evening at university sitting alone in your room, probably feeling awful. This can be mega-depressing. During the first day, make sure you arrange to meet someone and do something, like drink coffee, or go to the University Club. There may something officially organised, like a dance or a film show. If there is, you should go to it, unless you have made private arrangements. You might find that you have made several new friends already, while standing in queues or sitting in lecture theatres waiting for something to happen. For your first evening, remember - get out there and enjoy!

Try to make friends in the first couple of weeks - each person you know tends to lead to an expansion and you will soon know lots of people. You will find a support-group of friends very helpful in the first few weeks. This is a great defence against feelings of isolation and insecurity. It may help if you join a club or two as this is a good quick way of making friends. There are numerous clubs and societies on campus, in many different areas, including, amongst others, bush walking, computing, Karate, tennis and weight lifting. It is important to get regular exercise, not only for your health's sake but also because you will feel more alert, which enables you to study better.

Some of the friends you make at university may be kept for a long time or even life, and some may prove useful to you in your subsequent career or travels around the world. Such self-interest is not the primary reason for having friends, but you should be aware of this possible payoff.

Spend time in your first few days finding out where the important things are. These include the library, the refectory, other places to eat, the shops, especially the book shop, and the bank, post office and credit union. Also examine the timetable on the notice board and copy down the bits that apply to you. You should work out where your lectures and workshops will be. Go and find the room physically so that you are not racing around searching at the last minute. Once you have been to a lecture it is easy to remember next week where the room is. Allow enough time to get there before the classes begin. All lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops start on the half hour and last 50 minutes. Should you find a staff member who forgets or ignores this and tries to continue for a full hour, you are perfectly at liberty to get up and walk out. If enough do this, the lecturer usually takes the hint and starts to behave a bit more responsibly. You will often need the ten minutes break time to get to your next class or appointment without being late, especially if it is on the other side of the campus.

It is also useful to learn a few of the University acronyms early on so that you understand what is being said or which building to look for in order to find the particular room in which your tutorial or whatever is being held. `MAS' (`Em-ay-ess') stands for the School of Modern Asian Studies, and `IBR' (`Eye-bee-are') for the School of International Business Relations. Both these Schools make up the Faculty of Asian and International Studies (`AIS' pronounced `Ay-eye-ess'). Other useful ones include `Hum' which stands for Humanities or the Humanities building, `Admin.' which rather confusingly is used for both the Faculty of Administration (an academic body) and the central administration of the University, and `IT' (`Eye-tee') for Information Technology.

It is particularly useful to get hold of the latest Undergraduate Studies Handbook of the University and read the General Information section carefully - it will answer many of your questions, including some you probably did not even know you had, and help to ease your passage into this new and exciting life at university.

Although it may seem a bit strange at first, it does not take most people long to settle down and adjust to university life. The first week or two can seem very strange, but you will find that you rapidly start going to lectures and tutorials so regularly that you establish a familiar routine. The settling in process is often made easier if in the early lectures you are given instructions about what you are supposed to do, and also how and when to do it. You will also probably receive one or more hand outs in the early lectures that tell you more about that particular subject.

Where To Live	Transport	Living Cheaply
Settling in

What Is Expected Of You?	Motivation, Time Use And Self-Organization	Friends And Support Groups
Sexual Harassment	If You Have Problems	Read The Supplied Information
Mail	For The Student Coming Straight From School	For The Mature Student Returning To Study
For The Foreign, Especially Asian, Students

Attitudes, Values And Some Advice	Some Advice That Reflects My Value Judgements	Textbooks
How To Study	Language Study	Note Taking
Files And Filing	Learning

Essay Preparation	Style	Footnoting
Some Types Of Common Mistakes In Essay Writing And Paper Presentation	Multiple Choice Quizzes, Write-In Answers, And True-False Tests	Revising For Examinations
Examinations	Oral Assignments	Plagiarism
Joint Projects	Some Cautions On Joint Projects