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☆ seat·work (sēt′wʉrk′)

noun

reading, writing, or other work on lessons, done in school by students at their desks

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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seat work tends to be low-level "busy" work, unless it is creative, such as a research paper, orginial poem or story, or analysis of data.

Posted by Linda Thomas 40 days ago.

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