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.

Tutorials begin in Week 1.

There is no Week 13 lecture or tutorial, other than the Monday tute following the previous Friday's lecture.

There is no Monday tutorial in Week 8 (Mon 6th Oct is the Labour Day Long Weekend). Instead, both tutorial classes will be combined for the Week 7 showing of Gillian Armstrong's film My Brilliant Career in W6B 320.  

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 assessments 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. 

A major part of this unit is digital approaches to pre-War Australian literature and culture.This task requires each student to choose one literary website from the list given on iLearn or one approved by your tutor. You must then write a 1000 word website review (short paragraphs which directly cite the website, no dot points), paying particular attention to:

a) The aims, purpose, and features of the site (5 marks)

b) The ways in which the site seeks to (de)construct or reinterpret pre-war Australia, BOTH conceptually and through its functionality (5 marks)

c) The applicability and usefulness of this site as a secondary source for a research essay based on a single key unit text, and the kind of secondary source this source would provide: ie. direct textual criticism, general literary criticism/review, or broader contextual background/analysis.  

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

All assessments must be attempted in order to pass this unit. If you think you cannot complete this task, it is your responsibility to communicate this to your tutor. 

This final essay is in lieu of examination. It will ask students to discuss at least 3 texts or topics in relation to more broadly conceived issues. The essay questions will ask you to compare topics set for study in a synthesized argument directed to a relevant issue.

This essay has a strong research component. Students are expected to conduct independent scholarly research in relation to the essay questions, upoladed to the ENGL308 iLearn site 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).

Essay topics will be provided in Week 8 via the ENGL308 iLearn site. Submission and return of essays is via upload to the Turnitin link under 'Assessments' on the ENGL308 iLearn site. There is no physical submission of essays.

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

All assessments must be attempted in order to pass the course. If you think you cannot complete this task, it is your responsibility to communicate this to your tutor.