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Edited by Jane Williams, Wednesday, 13 Nov 2024, 08:45

Not a bad mark. 

Points to note, copied from his "red pen" (it was blue)

Did you consider using examples of the two approaches from the Course materials?

No, I didn't. I didn't see any particular reason to to use those examples when life is so full of them! Apparently nor did anyone else!

Two small points here:

-        Please put the questions in bold type so that they stand out from your answers

-        Please use only the Course materials as references

OK, I can do the former easily enough (and he said in the tutorial that I don't need "Question" and "Answer" subheadings)
The latter, I went "you what?"
It seems that the reasoning is that he doesn't have time to check out a reference he isn't already familiar with.
(And to be fair, while the second one of mine was a Shakespeare quote, this first may not be regarded as easy reading.)

Divjak, D., Sun, H. and Milin, P. (2024) “Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours: Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge,” Journal of Neurolinguistics, 69. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101177.

I must remember: the course materials are intended to be enough! I see them as a starting point to more interesting things, but the TMAs are designed to test that I've understood what I've been given, no more.



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TMA01 done

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Edited by Jane Williams, Sunday, 10 Nov 2024, 11:15

A little over word-count on part of it, but close.

Two references in there, mainly for the sake of seeing if I can do it. And yes, I  learnt a few things in the process.

OU library is wonderful. If I want a text, I should be looking there, not Google. Then I can just hit the "cite" button at the top, job done.

If I need help, OU library again. Email them, they'll have an answer, and point me to a page explaining it.

I've been trying to use Mendeley to create/organise references, but there's too much missing. If I have a PDF to upload, great. If I don't, it isn't really doing much. There's supposed to be an add-in to Chrome that will reference web pages, but it doesn't work.

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TMA01

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Edited by Jane Williams, Monday, 4 Nov 2024, 16:51

Working my way through it. I started with a template to fill in, plus a document with the questions in it.
I've done the factual parts, complete with a reference to a research paper (OK, that was mainly so as to practice referencing! I now have Mendeley installed.)

Reflection part in section 1, done.

Final reflection part, I've selected the two activities I want to talk about.

I have to submit it by Thursday, and this is Monday. Tomorrow morning will be spent mainly at the hospital, and the evening celebrating Bonfire Night. Wednesday includes a talk to attend. I should have plenty of time.

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Talk on reference managers

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Edited by Jane Williams, Monday, 4 Nov 2024, 16:50

This might be a good place to keep my notes?

That was yesterday evening. Quite a few possible tools were mentioned, but I'm only looking at the freebies.

https://www5.open.ac.uk/library/referencing-and-plagiarism/bibliographic-management

Here's the  tool I'm thinking of using

https://service.elsevier.com/app/home/supporthub/mendeley/

ACTION: join, investigate

done, 4th Nov



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