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Hi Tim,

I'm a fellow OU student and I thought of adding you. I'm currently woring on my ECA for E301, I read on your blog that you got a distinction out of your course, congratulations!

Which courses of literature have you done? How long before you finish your degree? I'm doing A210 (starting in a week's time!) ad AA306 (starting in February!) and then I'm finished.

If you feel I'm invading your privacy let me know, I won't disturb you again... I just found your name when I was looking for tips on the ECA :)

Good luck with any course you're doing now!

Let's see, I've done A103, U210, E301 and I'm doing E303 (just sent off my project). That leaves me two more courses to go, but I think I can carry 60 points over from my computing masters, so just one will do it.

None of them have been particularly literary but I'm interested in the linguistic characteristics of literature. It turns out I'm fairly good at close readings, and for my E303 poroject I've looked at the linguistic difference between passages that "show" and those that "tell". That was actually a response to critics complaining about J K Rowling telling instead of showing, but the scope of the project would have been too big if I'd actually included it -- I just looked at how close I could get to an objective measure that I could use.

You might see me in the English Language Cafe on FirstClass!