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Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...write up a conference paper. When we began, the focus was still on the referendum campaign. By the time it was sent out for review, however, the debate had moved on to hard v soft Brexit, or the parlous state of democratic party politics. Although we had taken temporality itself as a central theme, our approach – a form of conjunctural analysis that tried to align...
Support for dyslexic language students through feedback
Education & Development

Support for dyslexic language students through feedback

...writing strategies are clear, tutors can point them in the right direction if necessary. Advise students with dyslexia to submit a special circumstances form with their assignments, so the Assessment Board is fully informed. Explaining the teacher’s role It is important that tutors let dyslexic students know that they can count on their support. However, it is also...
The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...writings would influence Zeno of Cithium, founder of the Stoic school) and, most famously, Plato (the main source of our information of Socrates in his Dialogues) among many others. Every major philosophical school mentioned by ancient writers following Socrates' death was founded by one of his followers. The diversity of these schools is testimony to Socrates' wide...
20 years in Linguistics: how the way we communicate has changed
Languages

20 years in Linguistics: how the way we communicate has changed

...writing in around 3400 BCE. This allowed people to communicate across distances – a written message could be transported across a country – and across time – I can still read the thoughts of Aristotle, despite having been born over 2,350 years after him. Today, technological change happens at a dizzying pace. In the case of communication, it is digital technology...
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived difficulties, illuminating complex patterning and structure in this fictional account of an English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces...
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...writing and other communication more effective. So, in this course you will see how studying grammar as a tool for meaning-making has numerous useful applications in the real world of professional practice and everyday communication. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E304 Exploring English Grammar. Brief definitions of words in...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...writing TMAs, revising for exams, or for making links with later parts of the course. As students you will be using a variety of course materials and you will make notes in a variety of ways probably. You will be using course books, which you may be reading, or listening to on tape, course cassettes like this one you will be listening to, watching TV programmes and...
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...writing in a notebook.] Activity 1 What do I ‘know’ already? Timing: Allow 10 minutes to complete Make a list of the sorts of things you think you already know that might be useful to you if you were practising as a social worker. Discussion Here are some example suggestions that might be similar to yours: I know about some of the services that are relevant and who...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs