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[gloria_taipei]

The American Heritage Dictionary explains a workbook to be "A booklet containing problems and exercises that a student may work directly on the pages."

In Taiwan, we use booklets with blank paper (some of which has grids) to practice writing Chinese characters or to solve math quesitons. I'm looking for the proper term for that. Are they still called workbooks?

Thanks you for your reply in advance.

[Mister Micawber]

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I think that I would call it a 'blank notebook'. It seems to me that there is also a name for those books with nothing but measured lines for rote writing of characters, syllabaries and alphabets, but it slips my mind.
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[CP]

Sometimes the blank notebooks are called "composition books." They differ from tablets of paper. Tablets are bound at the top, and the pages are often perforated to be easily torn out. Composition books are more permanently bound on the left, and the pages generally are not perforated.
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