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 enrollment and contribution?

Tutorials begin in Week 1. Please note there is no Week 8 lecture or tutorial due to the Labour Day Long Weekend.

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.

All assessment tasks must be attempted in order to pass this unit. If you withdraw from this unit, it is your responsibility to inform your tutor.

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. 

Select one Australian literature scholar currently stationed at an Australian university from the AustLit database. A helpful list will also be provided.

In a minimum 1000-word upload (plus Works Cited), write a concise analytical report (short paragraphs, no dot points) on the research interests and history of publications of the scholar (5 marks), then select EITHER a single journal article sourced through APA-FT database OR a scholarly book/ebook held at the library and outline its argument, structure, plus one key work from its own Works Cited (5 marks). Finally, discuss how your selected journal article or book might be best used as a secondary source (and what kind of secondary source: direct textual criticism, wider literary criticism/theory, or broader contextual argument/analysis) in a Research Essay on one key unit text and its relation to Australian place, nation and identity (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). You must conclude with a Works Cited in MLA Style. 

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

Word length is 2000 words plus Works Cited. Essay topics will be available on the iLearn site in Week 8 and discussed in the Week  tutorial. An essay writing Style Guide is available through the ENGL200 iLearn site. This is particularly recommended for international students or those who have not recently completed a tertiary English essay.

All essays must be submitted electronically through the Turnitin link which will be opened (with instructions) under 'Assessments' on the ENGL200 iLearn site. There are no hard copy submissions.

Essays should be precise and well-planned, drawing on quality research comprising of the primary text(s) plus a minimum of seven (7) secondary/critical sources.

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).

If you have a legitimate reason for being unable to submit your work on time, for which you can provide documentation, contact your tutor to discuss and extention (before the due date). For more severe, documented interruptions you may need to apply for Disruption to Studies Policy. See http://students.mq.edu.au/student_admin/exams/disruption_to_studies/  and/or use ask.mq.edu.au.

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

This Assessment Task relates to the following Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstration of independent critical research analysis leading to the communication of an essay-based argument
• Ability to work contextually between genres, eras and media (eg. from printed to cinematic to online texts and interactive formats)
• Ability to apply literary insights into broader social and environmental contexts
• Professionalism in terms of punctuality, required levels of tutorial and online participation, task management, team-based communication and presentation of work
• Ability to take the insights and skills of this unit into further learning and to encourage the learning of others

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.