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So you've written your novel, what now?
History & The Arts

So you've written your novel, what now?

...work. Many publishing houses don't accept what they call 'unsolicited submissions' – manuscripts that haven't arrived via a literary agent. Below, one of those literary agents, Joanna Swainson from Hardman & Swainson, shares her top five tips for snagging an agent. 1. Finish the novel to a high standard There are no shortcuts to being a published author. Don’t...
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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...work was first released in 2015 and relaunched in 2021 for another five years. It outlines six ambitions, illustrated in the image, to improve the care of dying people. [Six ambitions to bring the vision of the framework about. Each ambition is represented by a different colour arrow. ] The framework is not mandated health policy. Instead, it serves as guidance for local...
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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...work every once in a while. Car sharing is another fantastic way to reduce cars on the road. Not only is this a way to network and make friends, but you’re also reducing carbon emissions and likely helping your colleagues by alleviating stress on your work car park. Read more: Living without oil (Free course) Transport and sustainability (Free course) Work habits...
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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...work of OU historians. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Suzanne Forbes]I’m not sure there was a single turning point or experience that got me interested in history. I enjoyed history at school, but what really kept me interested in the subject was the process of...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...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. 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...
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Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...works in social settings, how monologues operate. Reading specific sections in isolation reminds you that a script has to have a structural coherence even in its smallest units...Creative writing and critical reading: 4 Writers on reading - In the next activity, you will listen to members of the Creative Writing course team at The Open University talking about their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...social structure, cultural norms and values, and climate? The discussions of Selvon’s novel in this course will offer some possible answers to this and other questions, through an emphasis on the themes of migration and memory...Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners: Leaving home - The issue of finding a ‘voice’ for the articulation of West Indian migrant experience has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...working for institutions concerned fundamentally with operating within and protecting the Constitution. We know that large organisations are subject to regime change. Regime change can and repeatedly does put even the core structural principles and values of any institution in jeopardy. Institutional memory fades and anything can be sacrificed to the agenda of the...
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