# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- appreciate diagrams as a powerful aid to thinking and acting
- distinguish between systems diagrams and diagrams helpful in systems work
- demonstrate sufficient skills to ‘read’ and ‘draw’ a wide range of diagrams, following given conventions, that help improve an understanding of a situation
- select diagrams suited to the needs of the situation being investigated and the purposes/preferences as the diagrammer.

OpenLearn - Systems diagramming
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