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Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...change your wording, or improve your paraphrasing. Using Turnitin in this way gives you the chance to practise and make improvements, so your final work is stronger and shows your own voice clearly. In the next section you will look more closely at a Turnitin report and what it shows you...Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing: 3 What does a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...changing jobs, wondering how to move up the ladder or return to work after a break, and those who might be looking to aspire to better things...Planning a better future is an introductory course for anyone considering changing jobs, wondering how to move up the ladder or return to work after a break, and those who might be looking to aspire to better...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...changing demands on families who care for one another during illness – for example, when a family member is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Finally the course considers 'young carers': those children who take on the major responsibility of caring for a family member. Alongside studying issues of family health, this course will introduce you to interpreting...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...changed over time. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T849 Strategic capabilities for technological innovation...Technological innovation: a resource-based view: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the genesis and continuing development of the resource-based view of organisations...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...changing role in society. So now we have three things that help distinguish sociology. First, sociologists study what happens when people do things together. Second, they are interested in collective rather than individual phenomena. Third, they tend to focus on things that persist over time as well as moments in which they change. From here, we can begin to fill in more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...change in leadership at the local health ministry is a much stronger pitch. Use various sources Include some information about who you are going to talk to, demonstrating a mix of independent sources and those involved in the story. Many editors like to see a minimum of two sources, at least one of them independent from the main source. Watch the detail Ensure clarity and...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...changes along the way. They might forget their childhood, their personality traits and their interests and attachments might change. So would we really have the same person at the end as we had at the start? A second question concerns the desirability of immortality. Is immortality something we should want? It might be suggested that immortality would make our lives more...
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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...change will continue at a much slower pace than the past few decades. Maybe we will see a return to evolutionary rather than revolutionary change and the technologies we have now will still be around – much faster, more sophisticated and ubiquitous of course, but still recognisable. Or maybe some combination of economic, social and environmental apocalypse will cause...
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