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TMA 01 result.

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So, my results are in and I'm actually surprised!  Overall score of 80!  Thats way higher than I excpected.  37 for the Cleopatra part which I had no idea what to do with, so I BS'd the whole thing! 43 for the Cezanne part (One of my hobbies is ophotography, so I'm used to looking fairly closely at some pictures, though not comparting them).

I have a lot of good guidance too, but obvously getting a really high mark leaves less room for maneuver in TMA 2 when I rework one of them. 

It's looking like i'll rework the cleopatra part, Thats the part I was overall most unhappy with.


On a side note, I have to say that If i hadnyt done the access course (y032) I would never have learned how to structure an essay and this would have all turned out differently!


As I have a week off work I think I should do TMA 2 this week!

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TMA 01 submitted, referencing is stupid

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So finally, i have finished TMA 01!!  what a flaming pain in the backside!! 

I added my citations and references before I spellchecked and grammarised the essay and submitted.


Referencing is the biggest faff on I have ever come accross...  surely someone could have thought of a much easier way than what we use!

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Still seems okay.

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Sop, this AA100 thing still seems to be progressing okay. 
I feel like I have learned a fair bit already in relation to study skills, looking at and interpreting things and its only been a couple of weeks since the start. 

I'm already three weeks ahead, where I planned to be at the beginning of the module!   But i've taken a break from working from the book now for a little while to concentrate a little more closely on TMA 01

Cleopatra -  I had initially looked at the passages that I wanted to use in this little essay as well as the one thst is with the essay question, but I had sort of got very confused and marked up bits that I now see as irrelevant (watch as they turn ut to be important bits).  I had started a draft copy too...  but i knew it was pretty poor from the outset, So i have abandoned that one and taken myself about three hours this morning to run back through the three passsages I wish to use, pick out and for the most part paraphrase parts of it as I noted them for my essay.  Then after a brief essay plan I used my notes quite closely to write the essay minus the conclusion, That'll come to me eventually and i will have about 80 words to use on it.  I plan to type that up in a few minutes. 

Cezanne - Okay, so as a photographer, I thought I knew what I was doing with this... after all i'm used to comparing photographs arent I!  Turns out I havent got a bloody clue doesn't it.  I reviewed inside art again and made a pretty slapdash effort at the Cezanne essay a week ago.  I've now picked out some different points and think I will recompare the two paintings.  It doesn't help however that I think Cezanne is a pretty poor artist. 

My new house should finally be bought in a couple of weeks, so that three week start I had on the module will soon fade into nonexistence during the month I have allotted myself to decorate and move into my house.   I hope I still find enough time for studying too, even if it is just while I'm sat on the floor waiting for a new settee or a new desk! 



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