Edited by Sarah Louise North, Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 05:08
Module 2
I am now registered for part 1 on stage 2. It is the compulsory module Creative Writing. I did see people in the OU chat forum that most of them were going to start with the options before studying the compulsory module because they wanted to get that one out of the way. After all, they wanted to study Creative Writing. I did think about it, but I thought that it is that way for a reason so I decided that I was going to study them all in order so I can get the most out of it. Also, for the optional module I want to study Telling Stories: the novel and Beyond (A233) the reading material that is needed for that module is so much. What I have been doing is getting the books in audio and book form and listening to them, I bought a book review journal on Amazon, and when I have read a book I write my review down. When it comes to reading the book, I will be able to look over my review because the journal asks you to write your favorite part page number, so I find it in the book and highlight it, and I then write on the card I have in the book. That is how I am studying the books I need to read. Some books do not need to be read as it states you only need to read one of the books that has a star next to them but I have decided that I am going to read all of them because I don't know if I am going to like them all and, it will only make me a better writer. The more you read the better you will become, in any case, you can't read too much literature can you it will make me better, have a more in-depth knowledge of the English language, and be able to use better language instead of using cuss words. I don't mind swearing in my stories but would like a better language, which is why I am studying for a degree. I want my books, and my stories to have a professional look, sound better and not have people think that the book was written by someone who does not have an understanding of the English Language. I also just thought, I mean I didn't think about this until right now. As a member of staff at the OU, when I have completed my degree, I can study individual modules. I can study the modules I want to study for my degree but then I can study Reading and studying literature (A230) and then English literature from Shakespeare to Austen (A334). That will be the whole of the modules that are needed. I may also go on to study for my Masters Degree in Creative Writing. Once I have completed my Master, I might also go on to study for a Ph.D. and become a tutor at the OU, or if not a Ph.D. but a tutor. I would like to teach adults but, to study Creative Writing and to motivate and be an example I need to have written books, and maybe be a New York Best Selling Author that would be awesome, it would mean that the students that I teach will see that you can be an author but still need to have a job to pay the bills. I am getting ahead of myself but that is me, I think of what could happen in the future. I mean I will complete my degree at the age of 49 years old. That means if I studied the two other modules, that will take me to be 51 years old. What I have come to know is that it doesn't matter how old you are, you can never be too old to study and you can always improve on what you know. So what if I will be 49 when I graduate, so what if I am late in life in finding something I want to do, and so what if I don't want to study something for a career? I work part-time at the OU which is why I can study, and the medical problems that I have well, I am always going to have them so I will plod along at my own pace and I will graduate on the same year my qualification runs out. My last module finishes in May 2027 and my qualification runs out on October 1st, 2027 so I just do it. Glad the OU gives you 16 years to complete your qualification. The reason why it will finish in 2027 is because I brought a module over from 2010 as I didn't want to study A111. I'm sorry for all art lovers but I can appreciate a beautiful piece of art but I don't care what brush strokes were used or paint that was used. I can look at art and I can be drawn to it and have emotions about it but I am just not into it the way other people are. I don't understand brush strokes and as I said I would rather look at the finishing product and have an emotional response to it but that is where art ends for me. If I like it, I like it. If I don't, then I don't. But I do ask myself why I don't like it because to look at art and say I don't like it is not an answer. It's understanding why I don't like it so I do ask myself why because what I thought was interesting in studying Cultures was that not liking something is OK, but why? Is it the art or is it that you don't like how it makes you feel, or does it remind you of something? is it triggering for you? when I started asking myself those questions, it was because I stopped to look at the art and it was 9/10 it was how it was making me feel that I didn't like it, but when I looked at the art I saw beauty in it and that is what changed for me and how I look at art. I may not want to study art but I can now look at it and identify what it is that I don't like about it and to me, learning something about yourself is a very enlightening aspect of studying. It can change your outlook on things in general. Tuesday the 18th (next Tuesday) is results day and I am looking forward to seeing if I pass, I will get my Certificate of Higher Education then my Diploma dn then my Degree. I want my certificates so I can see that I have accomplished something. it has been a while since I last wrote but, as I got my next module book I bought on Amazon, I have been studying so I can spend more time on my assignments and studying the website and spend some time on the Independent Study so when it comes to my EMA, I will be better and yes, I will take another week off work when it is EMA week. When I get my results I will let you know.
Tuesday 11/07/2023
I am now registered for part 1 on stage 2. It is the compulsory module Creative Writing. I did see people in the OU chat forum that most of them were going to start with the options before studying the compulsory module because they wanted to get that one out of the way. After all, they wanted to study Creative Writing. I did think about it, but I thought that it is that way for a reason so I decided that I was going to study them all in order so I can get the most out of it. Also, for the optional module I want to study Telling Stories: the novel and Beyond (A233) the reading material that is needed for that module is so much. What I have been doing is getting the books in audio and book form and listening to them, I bought a book review journal on Amazon, and when I have read a book I write my review down. When it comes to reading the book, I will be able to look over my review because the journal asks you to write your favorite part page number, so I find it in the book and highlight it, and I then write on the card I have in the book. That is how I am studying the books I need to read. Some books do not need to be read as it states you only need to read one of the books that has a star next to them but I have decided that I am going to read all of them because I don't know if I am going to like them all and, it will only make me a better writer. The more you read the better you will become, in any case, you can't read too much literature can you it will make me better, have a more in-depth knowledge of the English language, and be able to use better language instead of using cuss words. I don't mind swearing in my stories but would like a better language, which is why I am studying for a degree. I want my books, and my stories to have a professional look, sound better and not have people think that the book was written by someone who does not have an understanding of the English Language.
I also just thought, I mean I didn't think about this until right now. As a member of staff at the OU, when I have completed my degree, I can study individual modules. I can study the modules I want to study for my degree but then I can study Reading and studying literature (A230) and then English literature from Shakespeare to Austen (A334). That will be the whole of the modules that are needed. I may also go on to study for my Masters Degree in Creative Writing. Once I have completed my Master, I might also go on to study for a Ph.D. and become a tutor at the OU, or if not a Ph.D. but a tutor. I would like to teach adults but, to study Creative Writing and to motivate and be an example I need to have written books, and maybe be a New York Best Selling Author that would be awesome, it would mean that the students that I teach will see that you can be an author but still need to have a job to pay the bills. I am getting ahead of myself but that is me, I think of what could happen in the future. I mean I will complete my degree at the age of 49 years old. That means if I studied the two other modules, that will take me to be 51 years old. What I have come to know is that it doesn't matter how old you are, you can never be too old to study and you can always improve on what you know. So what if I will be 49 when I graduate, so what if I am late in life in finding something I want to do, and so what if I don't want to study something for a career? I work part-time at the OU which is why I can study, and the medical problems that I have well, I am always going to have them so I will plod along at my own pace and I will graduate on the same year my qualification runs out. My last module finishes in May 2027 and my qualification runs out on October 1st, 2027 so I just do it. Glad the OU gives you 16 years to complete your qualification. The reason why it will finish in 2027 is because I brought a module over from 2010 as I didn't want to study A111. I'm sorry for all art lovers but I can appreciate a beautiful piece of art but I don't care what brush strokes were used or paint that was used. I can look at art and I can be drawn to it and have emotions about it but I am just not into it the way other people are. I don't understand brush strokes and as I said I would rather look at the finishing product and have an emotional response to it but that is where art ends for me. If I like it, I like it. If I don't, then I don't. But I do ask myself why I don't like it because to look at art and say I don't like it is not an answer. It's understanding why I don't like it so I do ask myself why because what I thought was interesting in studying Cultures was that not liking something is OK, but why? Is it the art or is it that you don't like how it makes you feel, or does it remind you of something? is it triggering for you? when I started asking myself those questions, it was because I stopped to look at the art and it was 9/10 it was how it was making me feel that I didn't like it, but when I looked at the art I saw beauty in it and that is what changed for me and how I look at art. I may not want to study art but I can now look at it and identify what it is that I don't like about it and to me, learning something about yourself is a very enlightening aspect of studying. It can change your outlook on things in general.
Tuesday the 18th (next Tuesday) is results day and I am looking forward to seeing if I pass, I will get my Certificate of Higher Education then my Diploma dn then my Degree. I want my certificates so I can see that I have accomplished something. it has been a while since I last wrote but, as I got my next module book I bought on Amazon, I have been studying so I can spend more time on my assignments and studying the website and spend some time on the Independent Study so when it comes to my EMA, I will be better and yes, I will take another week off work when it is EMA week. When I get my results I will let you know.