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How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...Creative industries CV With the expansion of digital and creative industries over recent years, CV formats have become more imaginative in these sectors. A highly creative CV format can be suitable for some roles in creative and artistic sectors such as marketing, design or journalism where it could help you stand out from the crowd. In its presentation, it can...
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...writing. Each track contains discussions and interviews with best-selling novelists from a variety of backgrounds including Alex Garland, Louis de Bernières, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Monique Roffey. This enlightening and engaging series tackles the practicalities and pitfalls of writing fiction. It contains invaluable advice on the creation of characters, the structure of...
Start writing essays
History & The Arts

Start writing essays

...writing essays, but it’s a craft that can be learnt. This album will help you to build confidence in all areas of essay writing. A student discusses with two tutors her writing methods and how she adapts her techniques for exams and assignments. With tips shared from Professor Richard Dawkins, TV personality Matthew Kelly, former MP Brian Walden, Baroness Helena...
Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...writing from the heart’...Our Teachers as Writers research reveals the highly personal nature of much writing. Threaded through our data from the Arvon residential we can see a strong sense of ‘writing from the heart’. In some ways this not surprising; we know that writers draw on their lives and as Berlie Doherty observed many years ago, ‘fiction is a combination...
Writing family history
History & The Arts

Writing family history

...writing are discussed in illuminating and perceptive depth, giving wide-ranging yet informative coverage of the topic. This material forms part of the course A173 Start writing family history... Writing family history A short introduction to this album. Working with childhood Childhood is a crucial aspect of the biographer’s art, but context, bias and interpretation can...
Writing across cultures
History & The Arts

Writing across cultures

Xiaolu Guo explains how she approached her novel, A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers - making creativity work across the English and Chinese languages...[Xiaolu Guo] Transcript
Nonsy on academic writing
Education & Development

Nonsy on academic writing

OU student, Nonsy, tells us how she plans written assignments in this extended interview from 'Go the Distance'...Transcript
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History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...creativity. Broader talents could include singing, painting or writing. If you would find it useful to have a list of skills to prompt you, Clear Mind has a table of transferable skills (open in a new tab or window by holding down Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) when you click on the link). Table 1 Skills/talents that I enjoy using SKILL/TALENT 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Words: 0 Now choose...