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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...writing and develop your understanding of the challenges of demonstrating critical awareness of a subject area. It will also help you to communicate original ideas or a new perspective clearly and within coherent structures, making use of appropriate scholarly and research literature. You will explore the need to draw on theories, models, frameworks and evidence to...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Happy Birthday Harry Potter!
Miscellaneous

Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

...pal Ron Weasley did on his 17th birthday, you can dig into our range of magical resources. We've got articles on the a range of exciting themes, spells and observances in Harry Potter, a piece on the use of magical creatures in children's novels as well as free writing courses to help you pen a brilliant story - all allowing you to learn in a fun manner for free. Always....
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Article 5 mins
OpenLearn Live: 2018 World Cup Special
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn Live: 2018 World Cup Special

...writing 'HOME' on a big piece of cardboard and standing hopefully at the side of road with its thumb out, fight the big match nerves with some calming insights into the world of soccer...[Vladimir Putin holds the World Cup] The Jules Rimet trophy is presented to the winner of the FIFA World Cup New for 2018 A line-up of articles fresh for this year's tournament -...
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Article 5 mins
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...writings about inquiry can be seen to underpin many models of reflective practice and action research cycles, which are widely used throughout education. But, in this cycle of reflect-inquiry-reflect, the focus of inquiry tends to foreground what could have gone better, or what was not achieved, rather than what went well, and what we could build on. This course will help...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Stamford College
Education & Development

Stamford College

...write the courses on the OpenLearn website but, as Caz explains, you don’t need to have an academic background, or work to a certain level to complete one of our courses. ‘We’ve found the introductory courses are suitable for all, such as Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis, they’re written really clearly. I don't think you need any kind of academic...
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Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...Writing in 2015, before the publication of Go Set A Watchman, Professor Richard Gray shared some of the story...Every now and then, the writer Josephine Humphreys has suggested, our lives veer from their day-to-day course and become for a short while “the kind of life that can be told as a story – that is, one in which events appear to have meaning”. As the...
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Article 5 mins
The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...writings evoke compliments, controversy, and contradictory responses from both critics and readers. Tales of childhood In his book Boy, which covers the tales of his childhood, Dahl declares his strong intention to rid his autobiographical narrative of all “boring” descriptions while redecorating it with more exciting and dramatic episodes. When explaining this, the...
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Article 10 mins
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the margins and across the borders of different worlds. Their work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the margins and across the borders of different worlds.Raymond Williams’s early...
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Article 10 mins