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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Derek Neale.

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Figures

Figure 1 The Open University/Getty Images/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert (Roberts)/Ben Stansall (Roffey)/J Vespa (Garland)

Figure 4 The Open University/Getty Images/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert (Roberts)/Rory Carnegie (Pears)

Figure 6 The Open University/Getty Images/Kurt Hutton (Hutton)/Marco Secchi (Atkinson)

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Other writers’ rituals © The Open University/Alex Garland/Michèle Roberts/Monique Roffey

Observation – the importance of detail © The Open University/Michèle Roberts/Tim Pears