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>> No. 5440 Anonymous
3rd August 2014
Sunday 9:21 pm
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I'm wondering, what grade do I say for english, when for english lit I got A, but for english I got B.

I've been saying A up until this point but I don't think that's technically true...
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>> No. 5452 Anonymous
3rd August 2014
Sunday 9:53 pm
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>>5449
It's asking you what you got in English. You got a B in English, so you put B. EngLit is a separate subject, and if you have a separate grade for "speaking and listening" nobody really cares what it is.
>> No. 5453 Anonymous
3rd August 2014
Sunday 10:48 pm
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>>5449
>Seemingly it was just an extra GCSE that I had no idea about at the time.
Clearly.

So you took the separate exams, got the separate grades, and then somehow thought 'I've got an A in English' for evermore.
>> No. 5488 Anonymous
15th August 2014
Friday 1:24 am
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>>5440
how can people be so oblivious
jesus christ

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 5491 Anonymous
15th August 2014
Friday 3:46 am
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>>5488
Capital letters and punctuation, lad.
>> No. 5492 Anonymous
15th August 2014
Friday 9:14 am
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>>5440

You got an A in English Lit, a B in English and you don't know how to use capital letters?

BROKEN BRITAIN

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>> No. 5377 Anonymous
11th July 2014
Friday 6:23 pm
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Is it at all feasible to do a part time masters course alongside a PhD in an entirely different subject area? I'm absent mindedly considering it a possibility, though not necessarily a probability, in the words of a FIFA 13 commentator. PhD in drug discovery and masters in financial investment (or financial mathematics) if you're interested.
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>> No. 5435 Anonymous
29th July 2014
Tuesday 2:57 am
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>>5434
Apologies for this horrendous post. If one can't shitpost at three in the morning after coming back after a night on.the piss what can you do?
>> No. 5436 Anonymous
29th July 2014
Tuesday 3:25 am
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>>5435

Have a wank and a kebab. The order is up to you.
>> No. 5437 Anonymous
29th July 2014
Tuesday 3:33 am
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>>5436
Wank on a kebab?
>> No. 5438 Anonymous
29th July 2014
Tuesday 3:35 am
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>>5437

Why would you want a double portion of secret sauce?
>> No. 5439 Anonymous
29th July 2014
Tuesday 3:45 am
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>>5438
To take the taste away from the meat.

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>> No. 5361 Anonymous
8th July 2014
Tuesday 9:39 pm
5361 oi u lot oi've sumfin 2 ask
I want to learn a perfect Received Pronunciation (and after that, a few regional British accents), and I'd like your help. It's not hard to find samples of British English on the internet, but I need feedback on my attempts.

I'd appreciate it if you could post a vocaroo sample of yourself speaking in RP (or your local accent, if you want), which I will then painstakingly analyze and imitate before posting a vocaroo of myself repeating it, which could then be commented upon/mocked and derided.

Reasons:

My grades are too poor and my motivation too low to go for graduate school in my field of study, linguistics (unless I want to end up at some bumfuck state university in flyover country). I'm considering accent coaching as a possible career, as there's opportunity for good money, and it lets me make use of my linguistic knowledge.

I'm a native speaker of American English, but a lot of places and people prefer to aim for a British standard, and being able to teach that would be a great help.

And as for non-RP, as an enthusiast of historical linguistics, I have a soft spot for oddly conservative/unique dialects (especially north England dialects).

I won't lie that there isn't some appeal to the idea of being able to pose as a Brit (or later on, a Yorkshireman or super-chav) at will, but I promise that I will use this power only for good.
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>> No. 5425 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 12:47 pm
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>>5424
Reverse nonce.
>> No. 5426 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 1:32 pm
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>>5425
I'm always hanging around the bingo halls with a brown paper bag full of Werther's originals, looking for easy prey.
>> No. 5427 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 11:40 pm
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I'm interested in the reverse - I speak with a mild south east Leeds accent (mild enough that most people can't tell I'm from the north), and I'd like to learn to speak with an American accent. Specifically, one from somewhere around NYC or Philly. Is there anything for that in London?
>> No. 5428 Anonymous
27th July 2014
Sunday 12:49 am
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>>5427
Pick up a London RudeBoi accent. It's be'er.
>> No. 5429 Anonymous
27th July 2014
Sunday 1:25 am
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>>5424
In the interests of balance:
https://www.youtube.com/v/_GFKdecB9lQ

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>> No. 5071 Anonymous
9th February 2014
Sunday 4:26 pm
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Lads, I've got an interview at Manchester tomorrow.

I'm quite sure I know everything I need to and can reel off an answer to the standard uni questions (why Manchester? Why this course?) etc. However, this is my first uni interview and so can only guess at what it'll be like -- any of you got any tips?

Thanks
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>> No. 5275 Anonymous
26th April 2014
Saturday 10:48 pm
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>>5113

I live in Fallowfield, and have for three years, and heartily second this. It's an awful student ghetto (but fucking lovely in summer when nobody's here). Feel profoundly sorry for the actual residents, cunts used to come past my old flat shouting their heads off every night to the point the guy on the ground floor would often be seen taking the baby round someone else's at 4am. Horrible.
>> No. 5276 Anonymous
26th April 2014
Saturday 11:42 pm
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>>5275
That report makes me glad I've applied for the city campus then.

Some clouds have appeared on the horizon over easter -- revision for a module to be examined on Wednesday has gona pretty badly given the lecture notes are almost incomprehensible and my personal notes aren't much help. There aren't any past papers either, so I'm just gonna have to wing it.
>> No. 5277 Anonymous
27th April 2014
Sunday 12:14 am
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>>5275

3 years in Fallowfield?

You get less for death by reckless driving, lad. Fallowfield is a complete shithole full of spazzers.

Dear Mr Assad - please stop dropping your melting people bombs on Syria and build rockets to dump your shit on Fallowfield.
>> No. 5419 Anonymous
24th July 2014
Thursday 1:27 pm
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I got offered Wright Robinson which is the huge brutalist/modernist thing with the weird shape on top. It's cheap enough I guess.
>> No. 5420 Anonymous
24th July 2014
Thursday 6:19 pm
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>>5113

Scot here.

I lived on the Edge of Burnage and Fallowfield

Am I also a cunt?

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>> No. 5355 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 9:42 pm
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I fucked up my second year of University and have just about scrapped through with a 2:2 (53%) result. On top of that I was not able to secure an internship over the summer. Can I still fix this and has anyone here managed to succeed in turning it all around in the third year?

How have you lads managed to get on anyway?

I could have sworn we had a thread on this but it looks like it dropped off page 8
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>> No. 5358 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 12:16 am
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>>5356
Cheers for the advice, do you know what you did differently in your third to claw the grades back?

>>5357
Yeah I worked this out yesterday as well. I would need to get roughly 73% on all my modules next year for a first which might be feasible as I've pulled off not doing any exams next year (which is where I really fail) and have hit that target before on assessment when I wasn't doing it the night before. Its feasible anyway.

I'm looking at becoming a Barrister which means I need to leave with a 2:1 to even be in with a chance but I might take on a Masters because as it stands I'm sitting on a 53% with limited experience and a promise to do better.
>> No. 5359 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 2:05 am
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>>5358
>do you know what you did differently in your third to claw the grades back?

Since you're studying Law this may be more difficult to do, but I really took ownership of my studies. I made my coursework about my own interests (in my programme you could set your own assignment topics, in consultation with your tutor), which made working on stuff much more stimulating.

I structured my life a lot more, using a day-planner to schedule what I was going to be doing for each hour of the day. I also met regularly with a tutor to discuss what I'd be doing once a week, for 15 minutes or less, just to keep me ticking over.

I can't really go into everything I did to get going, because that'd be a >7,000 word post, but the long and short of it is that I stopped being 'passive' with my studies and really switched on and went for it.
>> No. 5360 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 2:31 am
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>>5359
>I made my coursework about my own interests (in my programme you could set your own assignment topics, in consultation with your tutor), which made working on stuff much more stimulating.
This made all the difference for me. I went from scraping a pass in the first year to getting 79 on my final project and it was all down to being allowed to pick something I was actually interested in.
>> No. 5395 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 12:03 pm
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>>5356
This guy reporting, check out my transcript. You can do it lad.
>> No. 5397 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 12:26 pm
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>>5395
Spreadsheet for easier reading.

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>> No. 5388 Anonymous
16th July 2014
Wednesday 12:36 pm
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What's the fastest way to an A level French or German qualification? I've become interested in working across Europe and either would be a massive advantage.

No colleges in my area offer private candidacy. As far as I can tell my options boil down to:
1) an evening class fast track lasting one year and costing £200
2) travelling to a college that does take private candidates and attempting to learn in my own time
3) taking some sort of distance learning course

Which of these options sounds best to you lads? Any experiences to relate?
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>> No. 5390 Anonymous
16th July 2014
Wednesday 1:16 pm
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>>5388
Are you looking to learn or get a certificate? If you're just after the paper ask the awarding bodies or exam centres whether you can register separately. If you're looking to learn, then you should pace it properly, though if you have a lot of ground to cover you may have to wait between each level. You might be able to make it through two levels in a year - one in autumn, one in spring,then waiting possibly a third in summer of you can find a willing language school.

The standard measurement for language proficiency is CEFR. You will need as an absolute minimum level B1, B2 if you want to get work on a reasonably short timescale, and C1 will be a definite advantage over other filthy foreigners.
>> No. 5391 Anonymous
16th July 2014
Wednesday 3:47 pm
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A-Levels will require at least a GCSE in the chosen language; but if you still want to do an A-Level you could:

Get RosettaStone, get a French/German textbook series, do a load of A-Level past papers and look at the specification then pay to enter yourself into the A-Level exams only.
>> No. 5392 Anonymous
16th July 2014
Wednesday 4:10 pm
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>>5391

I'd love to do this, but couldn't find an institution near me that would allow me to do so.
>> No. 5393 Anonymous
16th July 2014
Wednesday 4:38 pm
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>>5392
> I'd love to do this, but couldn't find an institution near me that would allow me to do so.
I never had that problem.
>> No. 5394 Anonymous
16th July 2014
Wednesday 4:54 pm
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>>5393

Very droll.

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>> No. 5312 Anonymous
18th June 2014
Wednesday 10:59 am
5312 Graduation and all that shite
How much wedge have 2014 graduates of .gs ponied up for their robes? I've just been mugged of £45 and I'm not even sure the hat's going to fit. What a fucking racket.
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>> No. 5347 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 7:18 pm
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>>5345

Shit, sorry. Drunken posting...I should be a mod.
>> No. 5349 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 7:39 pm
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>>5346

I made this for you. I don't know why.
>> No. 5350 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 7:59 pm
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>>5349

Hahaha!

That was very kind of you, Anon, thank you.
>> No. 5351 Anonymous
26th June 2014
Thursday 2:17 pm
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>>5343
So it seems in order to be truly free, you have to be unemployed, sit on your arse, never love, never reproduce, look like a tool, get hit by cars, not even own a TV, get arrested and die penniless.

Well shit, sign me up for that.
>> No. 5352 Anonymous
26th June 2014
Thursday 2:51 pm
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>>5332
I got a double E in art, then the the teachers had the cheek to give me an award of merit before I left. I think they must have took pity on me and thought "He'd better leave with something.."

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>> No. 5310 Anonymous
17th June 2014
Tuesday 12:07 am
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This may be a daft question but has anyone any experience of re-applying to a course you've previously failed?
It's been a couple of years since and I've continued in much the same track as I would have had I not suffered a bout of terminal incompetence so I'm fairly confident in it being the right idea.
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>> No. 5311 Anonymous
17th June 2014
Tuesday 1:18 am
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Come crawling back, eh?

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>> No. 5302 Anonymous
11th June 2014
Wednesday 1:49 pm
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What do you lads make of Michel Thomas for learning languages?
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>> No. 5304 Anonymous
11th June 2014
Wednesday 3:22 pm
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>>5302

You're not going to pass your course if you are asking now mate.

They are fucking brilliant though.
>> No. 5307 Anonymous
14th June 2014
Saturday 1:32 pm
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>>5302
Really good value I reckon. Fuck Rosetta Stone, waste of time and money.
>> No. 5308 Anonymous
14th June 2014
Saturday 2:12 pm
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>>5307
>Fuck Rosetta Stone, waste of time and money.

You never pay for RS, always pirate it. Even then it's a supreme waste of time.

I'll stick with saying that you need to full immersion and someone to speak with, to be even remotely understanding of how a language works.
>> No. 5309 Anonymous
15th June 2014
Sunday 12:08 pm
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>>5302
I think they're excellent - I have the French, Italian and Arabic ones. The French in particular are very good, I have the whole set and listen to them in the car.
>> No. 5348 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 7:22 pm
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I bought a Rosetta Stone and thought, what little I used of it, it was pretty good. Did stop as was trying to learn a language in a country I soon realised I wasn't going to be staying in for long.

Anyway, bumping this thread as I came across someone the other day using: duolingo.com and it looked rather good.

It's free to sign up and seems like it's worth checking out if you are learning another language. As long as that language is either Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian or English.

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>> No. 5305 Anonymous
13th June 2014
Friday 2:18 pm
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It is the last day of term and I'm currently in an e-mail exchange with my Chem lecturer about a lab report I have revised 5 FUCKING TIMES.

There is absolutely no reason why I should have to find a research a comparitive study. I have enough data to more than adequately provide a discussion on the experiment.

Last minute panics thread?
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>> No. 5306 Anonymous
13th June 2014
Friday 4:42 pm
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>>5305

Somewhat similar, my cunting supervisor wants me to do revision after revision, when the hand in date is on Monday.

No, I can't re-do entire sections when there's nothing much to change.

I really don't think this academia is for me, it's such a load of bollox to repeat something, meanwhile my equals have a much easier time because their supervisors could give less of a fuck.

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>> No. 5286 Anonymous
21st May 2014
Wednesday 1:20 pm
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Alright lads,

Anybody else here slamming though exams? Anybody got any tips for how to relax and not worry aborut the exam once it is over/

Yesterday I had some of my exams and in the panic of only having two hours I misattributed a quote completely in my argument (I was stressing) and I am starting to convince myself that I've completely fucked up the exam and got a bad mark. It's making me lose sleep and I'm only half way through exam season.
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>> No. 5297 Anonymous
22nd May 2014
Thursday 9:05 pm
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>>5296

That is a pretty broad generalisation and pretty much the opposite of what my GP advised me when I went to him about my insomnia in the lead up to my exams.

One of the whites relaxed me enough to drift off to sleep. Sleeping pills don't work for me, and I already have a prescription for beta blockers, so that was the only route we had left.
>> No. 5298 Anonymous
23rd May 2014
Friday 3:49 pm
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>>5296

Speaking as a heroin addict that has a lot of experience with these type of drugs, I can guarantee you that they are most certainly NOT something that you would want to take whilst doing exams or any type of mental task.

Benzodiazepines slow you down tremendously, especially if you have no tolerance, and they severely fuck up your short term memory and the ability to recall memories. They also kill your ability to concentrate.

I don't think there is anything else to say on the matter, but if you want some more advice please do ask.
>> No. 5299 Anonymous
23rd May 2014
Friday 3:51 pm
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>>5298

Oh, I just wanted to add that one of the strangest things about this drug is that you do not actually notice the effect yourself. You can take a shitload and you yourself will think you are fine, but if you ask an outside observer or you were to see a video of yourself, believe me you will see what I mean!
>> No. 5300 Anonymous
23rd May 2014
Friday 5:03 pm
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>>5297

The effect of a drug on someone attempting to relax and try to go to sleep and the effect of the same drug on someone who is alert and awake can be quite different. 2 or 5mg of diazepam isn't going to send an otherwise awake or alert person off to the land of nod, while it quite probably will allow a tired person who is otherwise stressed to drift off to a nice sleep. Apologies if my post wasn't clear before.

>>5298

All of that is true, but I think you're talking about much larger doses than 2mg or 5mg of diazepam. I'm not saying that even in such low doses it's side effect free, but it practically is.

Sage for /A/ in /uni/.
>> No. 5301 Anonymous
24th May 2014
Saturday 5:14 am
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>>5298

One time I had a driving lesson in the morning and I couldn't get a sleep. It got to 4am so I took a 10mg vally. What a wonderful idea that was.

The driving instruction centre was on a semi-pedestrianised bit outside a small supermarket (at the time). It was a weird bit of pavement/road because it was both at the same time. I remember driving back at the end of the lesson and kangaroo-ing along in front of all those people.

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>> No. 5279 Anonymous
1st May 2014
Thursday 7:41 pm
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I apologise profusely for having to ask this, but I'm in dire need of some help with a project I'm doing.

My graded unit is due in 2 weeks and I'm 90% done. The thing is, I'm not really sure I actually know what I'm talking about in the analysis of the data.

I am having to explain relative risk and confidence intervals in this report in a way 1st year uni students would understand (my target audience), but I'm not sure I understand them entirely myself.

I get relative risk, but confidence interval is pickling my mind and even when I google it I seem to glaze over. As far as I can tell, it is some sort of standard deviation that relates to how reliable a number, i.e. A relative risk value, is to a given percentage.

Is that right? Thanks in advance, lads. The report is about diseases during pregnancy, particularly causes of pre-natal uterine bleeding, and whether smoking increases the risk of these conditions.
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>> No. 5280 Anonymous
1st May 2014
Thursday 7:43 pm
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>pre-natal uterine bleeding

Ew.
>> No. 5281 Anonymous
1st May 2014
Thursday 7:54 pm
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>>5280

I have delved deep down the rabbit hole of pre-natal complications from placental abruptions to still born births during this project. Medical science is not at all glamourous.
>> No. 5282 Anonymous
1st May 2014
Thursday 10:39 pm
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>>5281
>placental abruption
Sounds hot.

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>> No. 5270 Anonymous
17th April 2014
Thursday 12:52 pm
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Hey /uni/

Does anyone know the norms around using a modified illustration in a report? To what lengths does one need to go to explain where it's from, and why it's modified? For example, in my case, if I were feeling meticulous the citation would read 'graph by x, borrowed from a report by y, using figures from z, then modified my me using figures from z, but found in incomplete form in a report by aa, which explains the difference in presentation'. Is all that really necessary?

<== It's not that one, by the way. I'm still working on it.
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>> No. 5271 Anonymous
17th April 2014
Thursday 1:08 pm
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>>5270
My first instinct as a pleb would be to just tag it with multiple references and cite the lot, since it would in effect be an original synthesis derived from those sources. But then I'm a pleb, not an academic.
>> No. 5272 Anonymous
17th April 2014
Thursday 1:21 pm
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>>5270
Is it not an option to just find the raw data, cite it, and make your own graph?
>> No. 5273 Anonymous
17th April 2014
Thursday 1:52 pm
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>>5272
I believe the way they do it in the literature is "Replotted with data from Smith (1998)."
>> No. 5274 Anonymous
17th April 2014
Thursday 5:08 pm
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>>5272

I've done that in most cases; in this one however
a) I can't find the raw data on z's website
b) I can illustrate my point without, so it's not worth ploughing that much time into scouring the web / library for them.

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>> No. 5239 Anonymous
10th April 2014
Thursday 1:31 pm
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end of email about dissertation submission deadlines from my tutor:

>There will be a champagne party to celebrate the submission of dissertations and the end of the prelims on Wednesday 23rd April at 6pm in my room (G9).

>hate self a bit
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>> No. 5265 Anonymous
10th April 2014
Thursday 11:43 pm
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>>5264
Yeah because everyone going north is going to get the guided bus all that way... Anyone who needs it will either drive to Peterborough or Bedford or just say fuck it and get the connection through London or Luton. Pointless. And I say that as someone with roots served in that direction.
>> No. 5266 Anonymous
11th April 2014
Friday 5:42 am
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>>5265

I literally just said they need to replace the guided busway with a train line linking it to the ECML. Not to get on the busway all that way. Read before you type.
>> No. 5267 Anonymous
11th April 2014
Friday 8:28 am
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>>5264>>5266
They could even relay the bits of track they built over to build part of the busway in the first place.
>> No. 5268 Anonymous
11th April 2014
Friday 8:48 am
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>>5266
I wasn't disagreeing with you you nonce.
>> No. 5269 Anonymous
11th April 2014
Friday 11:02 am
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>>5268

WELL LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN AGREEMENT THEN YOU TWAT



I'm really sorry, I'm not even the guy you're talking to, I just thought this would be a funny post.

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