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Study Writing : Essay & Report Writing Skills with Open Learn

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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.

 

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • understand what writing an assignment involves
  • identify strengths and weaknesses
  • understand the functions of essays and reports
  • demonstrate writing skills.

Course duration : 15 hours

You can start this course straight away. Please follow the link in your confirmation email to take you directly to the course.

This is an access anytime e-learning resource provided free of charge in association Open Learn

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Study Writing : Start Writing Fiction – Characters & Stories with Open Learn

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This free course, Start writing fiction: characters and stories, helps you to get started with your own fiction writing. It provides a practical, hands-on approach, focusing on the central skill of creating characters.

You will listen to established writers talk about how they started writing and consider the rituals of writing and the importance of keeping a journal. You’ll learn how to develop your ideas and the importance of reflecting on writing and editing, and you’ll hear other writers talking about their approaches to research and consider ways of turning events into a plot.

This course is intended for those with an interest in starting to write fiction or improving their fiction writing, and does not require any previous experience of studying this subject.

 

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • create characters for your own stories
  • understand the importance of keeping a writer’s notebook
  • reflect on your writing and edit your work appropriately
  • generate and develop new ideas in writing your own fiction
  • analyse and discuss creative writing.

Course duration : 24 hours

You can start this course straight away. Please follow the link in your confirmation email to take you directly to the course.

This is an access anytime e-learning resource provided free of charge in association Open Learn

(If you do not receive a confirmation email please check your spam/junk email boxes or sign into  the ‘Your Account’ section of the Learning Hub website to retrieve all of your booking and course information)

 

All Open Learn courses and have been shared by permission of The Open University copyright © and have been licensed for use under the ‘Creative Commons ‘Attributions; Non-Commercial; Share Alike’ License.  

For full information about the Open University visit Home | OpenLearn – Open University.  

For any further questions or clarification around usage, visit Frequently asked questions | OpenLearn – Open University

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Study Writing : Writing What You Know with Open Learn

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Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? This free course, Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their work.

 

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • articulate the notion of ‘write what you know’
  • write ‘blind’ descriptions of known objects and note new observations
  • have an enhanced ability to list sensory perceptions
  • write short texts about a personal memory of either a place or a character.

Course duration : 8 hours

You can start this course straight away. Please follow the link in your confirmation email to take you directly to the course.

This is an access anytime e-learning resource provided free of charge in association Open Learn

(If you do not receive a confirmation email please check your spam/junk email boxes or sign into  the ‘Your Account’ section of the Learning Hub website to retrieve all of your booking and course information)

 

All Open Learn courses and have been shared by permission of The Open University copyright © and have been licensed for use under the ‘Creative Commons ‘Attributions; Non-Commercial; Share Alike’ License.  

For full information about the Open University visit Home | OpenLearn – Open University.  

For any further questions or clarification around usage, visit Frequently asked questions | OpenLearn – Open University

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