Wordle – have I gone dislexic? Has my spell-checker given up through exhaustion? No Wordle is a strange little online application written by an IBM programmer, but made available free to anyone who wants to try it. It takes text which you can paste in and analyses it for repeated words, and then provides a [...]
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The University of Gloucestershire group met last Thursday morning for our final meeting prior to the Writing Project Retreat. I think this was a really useful meeting. One of the things we did was to have a training session on Endnote from one of our Learning Centre colleagues towards the end of our meeting. Once [...]
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Becoming an Author: Advice for Academics and Other Professionals by David Canter (Liverpool), Gavin Fairbairn (Leeds Met) Table of contents David Canter and Gavin Fairbairn provide an interesting discussion of how to become an academic author tackling a range of aspects of the process, with the case studies of various academic authors explaining their perspectives [...]
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