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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...writes as if she were ‘at one remove’ from the mainstream. You might say this stems from her emigrant perspective, from being called a ‘British’ poet in some places yet ‘Irish’ in others, and from being gay in a predominantly heterosexual culture. Bryce says this is ‘an interesting (no)place to write from’. (quoted in Wyeth, 2020) Bryce’s poems often...
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...writing What others said: One of the things about [having been] a journalist is that you have just got to write. … I just get started and [know] it will be fine, it will take shape. [EdD graduate] Structuring [my writing was a problem] – sometimes things make sense to me but they don’t make sense to other people … I don’t know why I struggled with it but putting...
What was the Bosman ruling? The one minute guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

What was the Bosman ruling? The one minute guide

...writing with a yellow highlight saying: Jean-Marc Bosman's contract with RFC Liege had expired; they refused to allow him to join Dunkerque without a transfer fee. He took his case to the European Court of Justice. ] [Subuteo player on a metal rod with a caption of black writing with a yellow highlight saying: The court found in his favour. Since then two principles have...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...writing of the region he grew up in, the South-West of England. You will then read one short chapter from Far From the Madding Crowd and find out about how Hardy uses narration, style and dialogue to create characters and a fictional world that readers can believe in. You will also find out about the important place of religion in Hardy’s work. This OpenLearn course is...
Climate Change Collection
Nature & Environment

Climate Change Collection

...under creative commons copyright. See individual courses or articles for further details. Registering for a free OpenLearn account will allow learners to enrol on a course and track their progress. Enrolment allows learners to return to the last page viewed in each session or lesson, and rewards learners who complete the course with a printable certificate of completion....
Will artificial intelligence put us out of work?
Money & Business

Will artificial intelligence put us out of work?

...Creative Commons video assets: Optimization of Parenthood by wheresaddie - (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Timelapse Thames and Canary Wharf by Chris Hoare - (CC BY 2.0) Horizon app "rotating" video by Kārlis Dambrāns - (CC BY 2.0) Satellite Map of France on Tablet Computer by ZNiCHKA Stock Media - (CC BY-NC 2.0) Unveiling THE ROBOT by Isabelle - (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) A Robot by Isabelle...
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...Writing a novel is a process of synthesis and you are always waltzing to and fro over the boundary between fact and fiction, with as small a bump as possible, preferably no bump at all. SALLY O’REILLY: Yeah. EMMA DARWIN: And having gone to a lot of trouble to do that I wasn’t going to write long notes explaining exactly where the bump was. SALLY O’REILLY: Do you...
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...