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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 - (see all news for this day)
the 'gap' in my knowlege - 12:57 PM
(filed under 'study')
the subject that i'm doing, professional communication, is one subject of a complete post-graduate course. although it was possible that i could enroll directly into the full post-grad course, the lecturer, roslyn, suggested that i do just the one subject to start with to ensure that i would be able to handle doing post-grad study when i'm not, in fact, a post-graduate.
it was good advice. i'm sometimes finding myself a bit lost when those around me are talking about infelicities, intesifiers, portmanteau words & heaps of other terms which i've possibly heard before, but never really had an idea what they meant. i have a good grasp of when something might not sound right, but i just can't say exactly why it's not right.
many of the people in the class have been working in the field of editing & proofreading for a number of years, so they already know the special ways to mark up a document to show where changes are to be made. that, in particular, is probably one of the things which was taught in the graduate course.
i'm rising to the challenge so far, but none of our assessments are due yet, so time will tell. i'm not worried, as such, just feeling a little stunned. there's a rather large learning curve happening.
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