Useful site on Critical Reading
If you are new to third level learning one of the skills you’ll need to embrace pretty quickly is critical reading.
The university of Wollongong has some good advice here:
Bad Faery hits the books
In February 2007 I became an Open University student.
I’m doing this mostly for personal satisfaction rather than career advancement and my decision to become a distance learning student arose out of a conversation that I would have with one of my work colleagues on a regular basis. Every year the local schools and colleges would announce their evening and part-time courses and every time there would be the same boring predictable courses - beginners computers, beginners Spanish, beginners French, beginners art. And every semester we would complain about the poor choice and why was it that every other town seem to have more interesting courses on offer. So I decided after having this conversation yet again that I would quit complaining about the lack of decent courses offered locally and go and find a course that I would actually find interesting and that would prove a bit of a challenge. And the OU was the natural option.
I started with a level 1 course just to see how I’d get on and by the end of the nine months had made the decision to study longterm for a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. I blog about my courses off and on on the main part of my site and decided to set up this subsite to keep a record of my courses so far and also to share any useful sites I find along the way that might help others with their OU studies too.
