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Sense-Lang

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An excellent course - easy to get started and learn to type quickly.

Power Typing

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Uses a traditional approach to develop skills.

BBC Typing School

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A good resource addressed to younger people and part of the BBC’s Schools programming.

BBC Computer Tutor

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Computer Tutor from the BBC website trains you on both mouse and keyboard and, to make things more fun, it’s set in 'Game Show World', a theme park about TV game shows.

Alison Touch Typing Training

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A free training course but you must register to use it. ALISON* claims to be the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills and all courses are accessible for free to individual learners.  Read more

UK.Gov Online Courses

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The learner needs to register to use these basic free online courses. Lots available, including online shopping, using digital camera etc. Key typing into the search box to access keyboard skills.

Typing Tutor

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Claims that you can type 10 times faster touch typing than using two fingers. A free trial and then $7 (under £5) for the course, which you can instal on your computer or log into on an online account.

Type Online

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A good basic free tutorial once you understand how to start the exercises.

Analytical Eye Technologies

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Analytical Eye Technologies’ provides free zip files with their typing course to download. Beginners may need help downloading files. Has had over 100,000 downloads in just a year.

Typing Soft

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Another typing tutor which also offers an alternative approach, thinking about avoiding repetitive strain injury, which some may find better.

Also has an extensive American.list of freeware and shareware some of which has to be paid for:

http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm

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10 August 2020 - What's new

August 2020
  • ‘We say to girls, "you can have ambition, but not too much" When I was five, I thought I was a writer. I didn't just want to be, I thought I was...' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, and very successful TED talks, including 'The Danger of a Single Story', in the Sunday Times magazine.
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Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2020

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Closing date: 
14 September 2020
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Open to both new and established poets aged 18 and over from across the globe £5 to submit one poem or £4 per poem for more than three entries
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Winners in each category will receive £1000 and both runners up £200

The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is excited to launch its 2020 International Poetry Competition to celebrate the power of poetry across the world!

Categories: Open and English as an Additional Language.

Deadline: 14 September 2020

£1000 to winners.  Read more

'I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.'

— Henning Mankell

'When I was five, I thought I was a writer'

10 August 2020

‘We say to girls, "you can have ambition, but not too much" When I was five, I thought I was a writer. I didn't just want to be, I thought I was.  Read more

6 August 2020 - What's new

August 2020
  • 'Well, the first six weeks I was not doing any writing at all. It was all about making sure the kids were all right and everyone was in a good mental state. Then, I thought maybe I can work for an hour or two a day and it was really hard work getting back in the groove. But, hey, the books aren't going to write themselves.
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