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Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...writing essays? An obvious way of finding out the answer to this question is by searching through successful essays. We could do this by simply reading example essays one by one and looking for the pronouns 'we' and 'I', counting the number of each pronoun and seeing which occurred most often. Another, easier and more accurate, way is to use a computer to search through a...
Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland

...writing about being a mother, daughter, or wife’. She disliked male-dominated poetry which made women ‘ornamental’ symbols of the nation. Eavan Boland challenged these images of women and therefore some of the assumptions made by nationalism. We might describe Boland’s mission as heroic: to write an honest account of female experience; to gain a place in her own...
Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'
Education & Development

Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'

...writings by Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Paulo Freire, Sojourner Truth, Malala Yousafzai and Barak Obama, and encourage them to tell their own stories. It is one of the first credited university courses provided to students in the camp. Teaching in the Jungle requires a flexible approach and warm clothes, as few equipped classrooms are available....
Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression
Languages

Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression

...writings using the corpus analysis software Wmatrix, I was able to show for example, that she statistically significantly overused words and expressions that suggested a categorical, polarized world view (e.g. always, never, everyone, nobody, all, nothing etc.). She seemed to see the world in stark contrasts more than others. At the same time, she also overused...
Download our Chinese characters learning apps
Languages

Download our Chinese characters learning apps

...write, recognise visually and aurally, and memorise some of the most frequently used characters in a systematic, friendly and fun way. Most importantly it helps you to form phrases and sentences with the limited characters learnt. For information on how to download the app, click here or on the image below. [A picture of a dragon.] This app contains the first 200 plus...
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...writing, particularly in education, is often done for assessment purposes. As a result, you might have feelings of being judged or assessed by what and how you write when sharing your thoughts on an online learning forum. 2. Having addressed some of the potential problems with using online learning forums, now consider the benefits, some of which were discussed in Section...
Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition

...write poetry, finding the use of metaphor helpful to grapple with and try to understand my experiences. Some I felt moved to create tunes for and others would fit themselves to tunes of familiar songs as they played on the radio or my own collections. Poetry and song writing became newly appealing as a way to care for myself and express things hard to articulate in...