October 26

I was reminded recently with a letter from the TAFE how much time has elapsed since I attended to my course work. Oops. Since coming home from a trip to Europe I have been busy editing the next journal and catching up with family, and writing articles about chickens.


Anyway I have written one research report and found it really interesting. As I could relate it to current issues it was great and helped me to understand the details around these issues - such as the Andrew Bolt case and the British phone hacking case. I'm looking forward to writing the next one now. With work and a wedding coming up I plan to have this unit finished by the end of the year. If it's finished earlier that would be a bonus. I do find industry law an interesting and relevant area, and think I learn better by this research and write style of learning

August 17

It has taken me some time to start this unit but I am looking forward to it all the same. My knowledge of laws and regulations within the writing and publishing industry is quite limited and I'm hoping to improve that. My problem is I don't retain things so I was pleased to read that one aim of the unit is to teach us how to find information rather than to make us learn it by rote. A much more useful skill! If I can apply new knowledge to my existing work then I will be very pleased. I like the way this course is giving me opportunity to fiddle with new technologies (for me anyway) and to be a bit more creative than Word allows. Next time i will take a picture of the garden outside my home office. It is quite lovely, even on this dreary day.