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Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...alphabetical order. We're going to look at quartz. Once the specimen has been selected, a series of buttons and a description of the mineral appear below the two drop-down menus, as shown here for quartz. Several views and, in most cases, a video clip of a rotating image, are available for each specimen. Finally, a 'Mineral properties' page is given for each mineral. For...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...alphabetical in nature. The advent of electronic records offers new ways of keeping a research diary with some useful features, such as the search function. You may choose to keep your diary online, on paper or electronically using word processing or note-making software. The key point is that whichever method you choose, you should try to add regular and consistent...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...alphabetical order but in your notebook you may prefer to keep ‘verbs’ (you learned parts of the verb ‘to be’ this week), nouns (naming words) and adjectives (like ‘French’ for example) in separate sections. Or you might have a section for useful phrases (‘je m’appelle Bob’). So it’s a very good idea to take some time to reflect on how you’ll...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...alphabet. And they give their name over to a clerk behind the desk who puts that down on a list. And that list becomes public record of how the MP has voted. It also goes on to be part of the official parliamentary report known as Hansard. Now just beyond those desks are two doors, which are left just slightly ajar so as only to allow one person through at a time. And as...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...alphabet, phone numbers Restricting written vocabulary and ideas due to known organisational and spelling difficulties Memory difficulties Retaining and recalling information Difficulties with short-term/working memory, e.g. dates Often forgetting conversations, important dates, messages Concentration difficulties Difficulty with listening and maintaining focus Finding it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...alphabet to describe each new rhyme sound, we could describe the pattern like this: a b a b b c b c c (imagine sustaining that intricate patterning for 42 stanzas). This kind of formula is useful up to a point for showing how often the same sounds recur, and it does show how complicated the interweaving of echoing sounds is. But it says nothing about how the sounds relate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...alphabetic’ or ‘numeric’: Alphabetic referencing is where the author’s surname and date of publication are listed in the in-text citation, while the final reference list is sorted alphabetically. The most commonly used example is the Harvard referencing system. Numeric referencing is where the sources used are allocated a number based on the order of their first...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...alphabetical order, from ‘Abdomen’ to ‘Wounds’, including what to do in cases of strangulation and how to tell if someone was dead. In cases of hysteria, the Ladies Diary recommended not sympathising with the patient, but throwing cold water in her [sic] face, then administering an anti-spasmodic draught. (Perhaps life in the Edwardian home was not as quiet as we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs