This is more than just attendance. Participation means effective preparation by reading the discussion texts before the tutorials and contributing individually or in groups once in class and for online assessments. The ultimate determinant of your participation mark is this: how much do your fellow students benefit from your enrolment and contribution?

PENALTIES:

Any student who doesn't bring the required textbook(s) to the relevant tutorials as per the Weekly Schedule more than once can only receive a maximum tutorial mark of 14/20.

If you sincerely believe you cannot acquire the text for supply, financial or other reasons, you must contact your tutor before the relevant tutorial to explain this. 

ABSENCES: All internal students must explain absences from tutorials by an email with doctor's certificate or other evidence before the day where possible.

More than two (2) unexplained absences is a direct breach of Learning Outcome 4 (Professionalism) and Graduate Capability 8 (Capable of Professional and Personal Judgment) and will result in failure of the unit.

If you withdraw form the unit, you must email the convenor toby.davidson@mq.edu.au.

Tutorials begin in Week 1. There is no Week 13 lecture or tutorial.

As well as the Week 3 lecture and ongoing tutorials, there will be an Early Feedback Quiz on the topics of Weeks 1, 2, 3, the Unit Guide, assessments and a little on Weeks 4 and 5 (yes, you need to read ahead!).

This will be under 'Assessments' on the iLearn site at http://ilearn.mq.edu.au/. Check this site regularly for updates, links, discussions, recorded i-lectures and slides, etc.

The Early Feedback Quiz will open 9am on the Monday of Week 3 and close 5pm the following Friday.

There are fifteen (15) questions. Every student is allowed two turns of the quiz as a whole. Most students choose to use their first turn as a 'test run' and their second as their final set of answers.

All assessment tasks must be attempted in order to pass this unit. If you do not complete this task, it is your responsibility to communicate this to your tutor. 

Using the electronic databases (either Expanded Academic, Project Muse or APA-FT through the library catalogue - databases) find one (1) scholarly article which engages or offers insights into one (1) theorist featured in Global Literary Theory.

In a minimum 1000-word upload (plus Works Cited in MLA Style), write a concise analytical report (short paragraphs, no dot points) on:

a) The scholarly background (discipline, university of origin if applicable), research interests and publication history of the scholar, ie. not the theorist (5 marks),

b) The scholarly article's argument, structure (including conclusion) plus one key work from its own Works Cited (5 marks).

c) The insights into your chosen theorist that this article provides and how these insights make it a helpful secondary source (and what kind of secondary source: direct textual criticism, wider discipline-based or interdisciplinary criticism/theory, or broader contextual argument/analysis) for a research essay into your chosen theorist's excerpt in Global Literary Theory. (5 Marks).

In this final component you must correctly set out and MLA reference one indented 'block quote' of 3 lines or over (max 6 lines, remove quotation marks). You must conclude with a Works Cited in MLA Style. 
 

Once finished, your Secondary Source Task must be uploaded to the Secondary Source Task Forum under 'Assessments'. Please note that while your Assessment feedback will be confidentially returned in class, all uploads will be accessible to other students in the unit to expand their research horizons. 

The Research Essay will be 2500 words plus Works Cited in MLA Style, featuring one excerpt from Global Literary Theory and one example literary text which is neither The Taming of the Shrew nor Dead White Males. In addition to this, a minimum of seven (7) quality secondary sources must be used. Topics for the Research Essay will be available in Week 8.

Penalties for late essays are 2% per day including weekends (14% per week) and there is no upper limit for this. Essays that are more than 10% over or under the word count limit will also be penalised by up to the degree of variation (ie. 10% under attracts a maximum 10% penalty).

Submission and essay return are by upload to Turnitin under 'Assessments' on the ENGL208 iLearn site. There is no physical submission of essays.

If you are having trouble, speak up! Come see your tutor during consultation hours or another time by email appointment.

All assessment tasks must be attempted in order to pass this unit. If you think you cannot attempt this assessment, contact your tutor.