History & The Arts
A collection of extracts from the works of Charles Darwin
Some selected pieces from Charles Darwin's writing and work
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...
Education & Development
Effective note taking
...writing, note taking helps you extend your attention span. Why are you making notes? Ask yourself – what do I already know about the subject? What additional information do I need? What questions do I want to answer? Listen carefully to the start of a lecture to establish the structure of the session. Listen for ‘signposts’ e.g., ‘there are three key points’,...
History & The Arts
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
...writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall musicians and audiences – a prima donna throwing down her music in a rage; a button popping off the plump Clive Bell’s waistcoat during the slow movement of a piano sonata; an elderly man crashing loudly but astonishingly unhurt down the stairs at Covent Garden. The social...
History & The Arts
Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
...write long essays or treatises. Most of his philosophical works are written as dialogues, in which a small group of characters discuss a philosophical question. The dialogues are usually set in the recent past, and the other characters are often real people – prominent public figures, whom his readers might well have known. It is as if a modern-day philosopher gave up...
Science, Maths & Technology
Spray diagrams
...Write words along the lines or ends of lines. The lines do not show directional links, just an association. Use different colours to highlight particular fans. Guidelines Write down the central idea leaving space all around it. Identify branches from that idea that you want to explore further. Write them down around the central idea and link each to it with a straight...
OpenLearn Ireland
Irish Women’s Poetry
...writing voices. Salmon Poetry, established by American poet Jessie Lendennie in 1981, published the first collections of a number of women writers who would gain prominence in later years, for example Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O'Malley, Moya Cannon and Mary O'Donnell. In the 1990s, activists such as Denis Collins and Anne Heffernan continued to promote women’s writing...
Education & Development
What this hub is about
...writing on race, the OpenLearn resources represent ongoing attempts to describe and give meaning to value-laden knowledge and understanding and to challenge dominant Eurocentric norms that ignore or relegate indigenous and non-white/Western perspectives and knowledge. These resources describe (an ongoing) social history of race and racism. In reading or writing for these...