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

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...2 Turnitin myths - It’s important to clear up some myths about Turnitin: By looking at the report, you can spot places where you might need to add a reference, 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...2: Income, taxation and benefits: Introduction - Martin gives you a heads up on what to expect. This is where you start to build your budget, filling in all your sources of income using a budget planner. Make sure you keep a copy of your workings so that you can refer to them again when you complete your budget by adding your expenditure. You can record these details in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...2–3 per cent of people could be killed by the smallpox infection that resulted from the procedure. Activity 2 Why would a ‘medical’ procedure with a 2–3 per cent fatality rate be tolerated? Answer The risk of fatality from variolation was still much less than that of contracting a fatal smallpox infection. Variolation was introduced into Europe early in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...2 Talks are used to inform, instruct, inspire, persuade and much more. Consider a speech or presentation you have witnessed and see if you can come up with examples of different talks that have had different purposes. How were the purposes of these talks made clear to you? What elements of those talks made them successful? Can you identify what contributed to the failure...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...le lingue e la traduzione, perche’ pensi che queste siano questioni importanti? In che misura il tuo multilinguismo è importante per la tua arte? E in quale lingua pensi che il tuo lavoro stia comunicando con il pubblico? Laura: Thanks for this question about language, translation and the relation between my own plurilingualism and art. When we have to define what is...
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Article 5 mins
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...2 What are extreme endurance sports? - Extreme endurance sports have become increasingly popular over the past two decades and there are events held across the world in running, swimming and cycling, as well as triathlons. This increased popularity can be attributed to three significant factors (Datta and Bagchi, 2019). First, increased economic prosperity for some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...2 currently, we get around three hundred thousand pounds a year from it. Andrew Cullen A Premiership football club will this season pick up nearly 105 million pounds in broadcasting revenues. We will pick up about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, in League 1 from broadcasting revenues. That’s the difference. Eleanor Oldroyd, Voiceover Niall Sloane was editor of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...2 Read Part I of Grice's paper, ‘Meaning’. The original paper is not actually divided into parts; they are my addition (indicated by the square brackets) to facilitate guided reading. Grice distinguishes natural from non-natural meaning. He also rejects an attempt (by C.L. Stevenson) to define non-natural meaning in terms of natural meaning, prior to offering his own...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs