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Unit 5

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Edited by Jane Williams, Tuesday, 19 Nov 2024, 10:34

I was a bit late finishing unit 4 (should have been over on Friday, but I ended up doing the last part today, Saturday). It had mind maps in it. I have confirmed that I do not like mindmaps, and that my handwriting is just as illegible as I'd thought. One part included asking someone else what they thought of two poems I'd just analysed, and the husband says "well, that’s five minutes of my life I won’t get back. What’s the point? What are they for?"

Which I partially agree with...  "How do I love thee?" spends far too long woffling on about religion.

Unit 5 is where we start looking at structure: metre, rhyme, things like that, It seems that the only metre we'll be looking at is Iambic Perntameter. My old friend.... so as an Example to put in my Glossary, I've used the only bit I ever wrote.

The stress must go on every other beat
“Pen-ta-me-ter” should mean I have five feet
I am iambic, that is what I am
In rhyming couplets, roughly, if I can


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In kitchen, no specs

Talk - "Really understanding questions"

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Edited by Jane Williams, Wednesday, 9 Oct 2024, 13:42

 A really good talk! The slides are downloadable, and I made so many notes (a lot from the chat) that they have their own Word doc.

It also answered an underlying uneasiness for me - am I working and thinking at the right "level"? No, I'm not. Some questions will be examining our understanding of the module material. No more, and references to sources outside that will not count. This is, after all, a pre-university course. Equivalent of A-level. I need to dial back to the days of just referencing the school-supplied text book. Remember the advice I'm giving to  my A-level CS student, and follow it myself. 

Also, the advice I'm getting on writing and getting the length right will very much apply to writing slides for teaching for the WEA, though there I've been known to copy/paste from my sources,  and I can't do that here.

Actions:

Look into mindmaps, and a thing called Obsidian

Find how to get Windows to read text aloud

Book rec: "Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide by redman and maples" - downloaded Kindle sample. It's written specifically for the OU!

Another book rec: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Study-Guide-Andy-Northedge/dp/0749259744


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