Skills for study: Writing and English

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Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

OpenLearn Enrolment
This short online course introduces you to Turnitin and demonstrates how it can be used formatively to enhance your learning and strengthen your understanding of academic integrity. Academic integrity is a fundamental principle of honest education and assessment, reflecting your commitment to producing and submitting work that is authentically your own — something to be genuinely proud of as a student.
Through guided activities and practical examples, this free course will show you how Turnitin can be used as a learning tool before you submit your final assessments, helping you to develop confidence in your writing, referencing, and citation practices.
Category: Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

OpenLearn Enrolment
Distance learning can open up opportunities for study. You might have not studied for a while, you might be returning to education, or you might not have had the chance to study at a higher level before. This free course, Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?, will help to boost your confidence. You'll explore useful skills so you can discover how ready you are to study and how to develop your study skills in six steps to become a successful apprentice distance learner.
Category: Education & Development

Good Academic Practice Collection

OpenLearn Enrolment

Explore our range of free resources on developing good academic practice and discover how to build them into your studies.

Category: Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

OpenLearn Enrolment
Distance learning can open up opportunities for study. You might have not studied for a while, you might be returning to education, or you might not have had the chance to study at a higher level before. This free course, Am I ready to be a distance learner?, will help to boost your confidence. You'll explore useful skills so you can discover how ready you are to study and how to develop your study skills in six steps to become a successful distance learner.
Category: Education & Development

Talk the talk

OpenLearn Enrolment
This free course introduces the mechanics of effective, persuasive oral presentations, by giving you the opportunity to analyse examples and then create your own. Using resources such as TED Talk videos, you will see how experts deliver professional talks and famous speeches, observe what works, and identify how language connects ideas and keeps a listener engaged.
Category: Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

Writing reports and assignments can be a daunting prospect. Learn how to interpret questions and how to plan, structure and write your assignment or report. This free course, Essay and report writing skills, is designed to help you develop the skills you need to write effectively for academic purposes.
Category: Education & Development

English: skills for learning

Develop the English reading and writing skills needed for university success.
Category: Education & Development

Am I ready to study in English?

Please note: As part of a review of content, this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on Sunday 5th of September 2021.Even if you feel confident using English in everyday situations, studying in English at higher education level might present extra challenges. This free course, Am I ready to study in English?, provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your English language skills through a series of academic exercises.
Category: Education

Developing good academic practice

OpenLearn Enrolment
This free course, Developing good academic practice, is intended to help you develop good academic practices in your studies and when producing assignments and completing assessments. Although designed as a course to work through, the content can also be used to dip in and out of, if you feel you need to improve your skills in a particular area.
Category: Education

Academic Skills - Key words in essay titles

OpenLearn Enrolment

When you’re assigned an essay, it’s important to look at the title closely. Understanding key terms is the key to writing effectively.

Category: University Ready

Writing critically and structuring your essay - Academic Study Skills

OpenLearn Enrolment

Techniques you can use to help your essays flow coherently and to make your arguments clearer and more persuasive.

Category: University Ready

About University Ready

OpenLearn Enrolment

Free resources from universities in Wales to help you take your first steps into higher education.

Category: University Ready

Start writing fiction alumni forum

OpenLearn Enrolment
The Start writing fiction alumni forum encourages the insightful discussions and topical debates with other learners.
Category: History & The Arts

What is good writing?

Does the idea of essay writing put you off the idea of studying? This free course, What is good writing?, will help you to realise that essays are not to be feared. You will learn how important it is to answer the question that is set and that your style of writing is as communicative as possible.PLEASE NOTE: as part of OpenLearn's ongoing review of content, this course will be deleted on Friday 6th March 2020.
Category: History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

Have you always wanted to write, but never quite had the courage to start? This free course, Start writing fiction, will give you an insight into how authors create their characters and settings. You will also be able to look at the different genres for fiction.
Category: Creative Writing

Describing language

OpenLearn Enrolment
This course introduces you to the basics of describing language. Using examples from English, you’ll learn how words are built, how they fit together to make sentences, and what labels like noun, verb and adjective mean. You’ll see how language patterns in regular ways and how the meaning of a sentence is more than the sum of its parts. This course is suitable for anyone who is interested in how language works and it is a useful starting point if you wish to study languages and/or applied linguistics at The Open University.
Category: Languages

Grammar matters

OpenLearn Enrolment
Grammar matters because, combined with vocabulary choice, it is our main way of making meaning. This free course introduces you to one approach used to understand how meanings relate systematically to different aspects of grammar and shows how this deeper understanding can be applied to make everyday communication more effective.
Category: Languages

Write it right: seven common writing mistakes

Tutors told us about common writing mistakes which can impact the grades students receive for their Open University assignments.

Category: English Language

Paraphrasing text

Please note: this course will close on 16th June 2022. You can continue to study this course up until this date.

In this free course, Paraphrasing text, you will focus on the process of turning what you are reading into 'your own words', which is an essential skill at university.
Category: English Language

Summarising text

OpenLearn Enrolment
Please note: this course will close on 16th June 2022. You can continue to study this course up until this date.

In this free course, Summarising text, you will learn how to summarise. Summarising is useful both when completing assignments and while studying.
Category: English Language
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