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Insider tips from a small publishing house
Posted: 19/08/19 09:57 |
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If you’re studying creative writing, chances are that the idea of publication has crossed your mind once or twice. Depending on what you write, you might want to pursue the accepted path of applying to agents, who will represent your fiction or non-fiction to large publishing houses. However, if you write poetry or are interested in making a direct approach, you may be interested in this blog post, in which I explain a little about the inner workings of a small indie publisher. Having worked for several over the last few years, I hope that this piece can give you some insight. Here are my absolute top insider tips from a small publishing house!
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Ask the librarian
Posted: 10/06/19 09:53 |
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Continuing from May’s Ask the Librarian blog that discussed how to find the right content online, lets next discuss what you should do once you have completed your first search for research.
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Ask the librarian
Posted: 06/05/19 09:05 |
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Searching online, especially for distance learners is easy to perform from home and was my go-to place for research when I studied as a distance learner.
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Ask the librarian
Posted: 06/03/19 11:14 |
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Most universities modify the system slightly to suit the needs of their students, so if you consult other universities’ Harvard referencing guides you will find differences between them. For this reason, it is important you use UCA’s own Harvard Referencing guide when completing your assignments.
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Some thoughts on criticality
Posted: 21/11/18 09:02 |
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Critical Art can be hard to understand – it’s designed to be challenging after all – but the bracing experience of having one’s expectations re-calibrated so that we can understand everything anew, or at least from a different point of view is to be encouraged.
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Book Review: Anne D’Alleva’s 'How to Write Art History'
Posted: 08/11/18 09:40 |
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Writing about works of art can be tricky, especially if you’re trying to build up a body of knowledge from a standing start as well as link it — perhaps at the repeated behest of your tutor — to work that you’ve made. Finding a way to turn the experience of looking at something into meaningful text isn’t easy, but developing a way of clearly writing about the visual is an important skill to acquire when studying art.
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Getting your poetry out there: Part 2 – Blogging and online presence
Posted: 23/07/18 09:09 |
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So your tutors are giving you good feedback, and you’re happy with what you’re writing, but what’s the next stage in sharing that with other people? People you don’t know, people whose opinions matter, people who are part of a wider community of poets? This post is about online presence; how you can use this as a tool to promote your work, how to make the most of the free tools that are out there and how to connect with your audience digitally.
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Study tips 3: Mental health
Posted: 28/06/18 09:39 |
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Over the course of doing a degree, there is a lot of opportunity for life to get in the way, and finding and keeping that motivation can be difficult, particularly over the 12 years that you might be with OCA.
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Ten tips to improve your sentences
Posted: 12/06/18 09:29 |
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OCA tutor Guy Mankowski’s ten tips to (hopefully) improve your sentences.
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Critique, Criticism (and Social Media)
Posted: 11/06/18 09:45 |
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Imagine if the next feedback from your tutor simply said ‘great’ or ‘I like it all, carry on’. I’m betting that you wouldn’t quite know what to do or how to progress. It’s your tutor’s job to give praise and encouragement but also to point out areas that need addressing. Feedback given by your tutor […]
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