Bridging a gap you and university study

When you come to write at university you may find that there is a gap that you have to bridge. On one side there is you, with your background, sense of 

An example of the foreigrmess of university study that you may encounter immediately is that subjects have their own jargon - words and terms that are used in a specific way in their own context. Even If you look them up in the dictionary, you still won t understand the way they are used in a particuiar subject area because their contextual meanings are specific and unusual. Familiar words are used differently and new terms are invented. Different uses of words indicate different ways of thinking about and viewing 

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