Study skills
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beccaelizabethI did study skills homework.
I now, much to my surprise, have a warm glow of happy accomplishment.
It turns out that I actually do have study skills. Quite a lot of them. Which, you know, sounds obvious, since I did Access for 4 years. But now they're all written down on a sheet of A4 I just get to feeling somewhat surprised I can do all that stuff.
Is going to turn into the gloom and doom feeling when I have to do the 'identify deficits' part, but I think I actually am starting from 'improve' rather than 'acquire' on all important points. And that includes working in groups. I mean, I may suck at it and have a tendency to bail out and do my own thing in a corner, but I at least in *theory* know how it is done. I've even applied the theory at least twice. Just... not terribly well, lately.
Groups are hard work. Thinking is easy work. I tend to get in a muddle and retreat to easy typing. But hey, typing is also a skill!
I also read through all the punctuation handouts I got out the learner center. I got a happy glow from knowing most of that stuff already. Though the different times to use a dash were kind of new. And I've only just discovered what a semicolon is actually for. I have been working under the theory that if I've managed to avoid the things for twenty nine years they can't be all that important. But now I have a sheet of paper that tells me what they are for.
Also mum knew. She has a little book with, like, stick men who tell you where things go. She says I can borrow it but not take it out the house. Sounds like a very useful book.
Punctuation is one of those areas I use much but understand only where I've had to pay attention.
I still haven't looked up active and passive verbs. But I don't have to do that this week if I don't want to.
I probably will later anyway.
There's supposed to be 200 hours for Higher Learning Skills module this year. I think I'm a bit ahead of schedule, on account of not having much English to do yet. I anticipate being all Lit and no HLS when I actually know what the assignment is.
Later I could read more of Great Expectations. Then I would be ahead.
Or I could read the York Notes thing I picked up without really looking at it. Was mentioned as useful.
Or I could do things that are not college. Like eating and sleeping.
I've done laundry today. It isn't finished yet because there was thundery lightning, and I figured a power cut in the middle of the spin cycle was unlikely to do the machine any good.
Yesterday I invite people round watch TV, today lightning. EVERY time I decide to plug the thing in again. Is getting a bit ridiculous.
But I had fun today.
Oh, and also dug out a book I got like ten years ago, a 'Plain English' book from the OU. Since my books are worse organised than college, that gives me a happy hunter feeling all of itself.
I definitely need a better icon for college posts.
Couldn't I at least feel like a Willow?
... Did we ever see Oz in class? Like, ever? Outside of Restless, which was a dream.
I could use Oz in Restless for a class icon but he were whispering not working I think.
I think I shall hunt icons next. Studious ones.
I now, much to my surprise, have a warm glow of happy accomplishment.
It turns out that I actually do have study skills. Quite a lot of them. Which, you know, sounds obvious, since I did Access for 4 years. But now they're all written down on a sheet of A4 I just get to feeling somewhat surprised I can do all that stuff.
Is going to turn into the gloom and doom feeling when I have to do the 'identify deficits' part, but I think I actually am starting from 'improve' rather than 'acquire' on all important points. And that includes working in groups. I mean, I may suck at it and have a tendency to bail out and do my own thing in a corner, but I at least in *theory* know how it is done. I've even applied the theory at least twice. Just... not terribly well, lately.
Groups are hard work. Thinking is easy work. I tend to get in a muddle and retreat to easy typing. But hey, typing is also a skill!
I also read through all the punctuation handouts I got out the learner center. I got a happy glow from knowing most of that stuff already. Though the different times to use a dash were kind of new. And I've only just discovered what a semicolon is actually for. I have been working under the theory that if I've managed to avoid the things for twenty nine years they can't be all that important. But now I have a sheet of paper that tells me what they are for.
Also mum knew. She has a little book with, like, stick men who tell you where things go. She says I can borrow it but not take it out the house. Sounds like a very useful book.
Punctuation is one of those areas I use much but understand only where I've had to pay attention.
I still haven't looked up active and passive verbs. But I don't have to do that this week if I don't want to.
I probably will later anyway.
There's supposed to be 200 hours for Higher Learning Skills module this year. I think I'm a bit ahead of schedule, on account of not having much English to do yet. I anticipate being all Lit and no HLS when I actually know what the assignment is.
Later I could read more of Great Expectations. Then I would be ahead.
Or I could read the York Notes thing I picked up without really looking at it. Was mentioned as useful.
Or I could do things that are not college. Like eating and sleeping.
I've done laundry today. It isn't finished yet because there was thundery lightning, and I figured a power cut in the middle of the spin cycle was unlikely to do the machine any good.
Yesterday I invite people round watch TV, today lightning. EVERY time I decide to plug the thing in again. Is getting a bit ridiculous.
But I had fun today.
Oh, and also dug out a book I got like ten years ago, a 'Plain English' book from the OU. Since my books are worse organised than college, that gives me a happy hunter feeling all of itself.
I definitely need a better icon for college posts.
Couldn't I at least feel like a Willow?
... Did we ever see Oz in class? Like, ever? Outside of Restless, which was a dream.
I could use Oz in Restless for a class icon but he were whispering not working I think.
I think I shall hunt icons next. Studious ones.
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Date: 2006-10-01 05:41 pm (UTC)The Blue Book of Grammar (http://www.grammarbook.com/)
The site is selling the book, but it has a tough set of grammar quizzes and online tutorials in the different areas. Actually, I found the site so useful when I was taking a grammar refresher class that I've got the book on my wishlist.
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Date: 2006-10-01 06:09 pm (UTC)It looks useful.
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Date: 2006-10-01 05:50 pm (UTC)We're here to help (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/11)
The Bad Boys of Punctuation (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/07/07)
Mr Period Returns (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/11/03)
In the Lair of the Semicolon (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/18)
Tough punctuation love for the online gaming crowd.
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Date: 2006-10-01 06:09 pm (UTC)I giggle
:-)