Assignment Submission

Please note that assessments 1, 2, 3, and 5 must be submitted electronically via the LING399 iLearn website by the time specified on the due date. 

Tutorial Attendance

Although no mark is assigned for participation in this unit, it is an assessment requirement that students attend at least 75% of tutorial classes (9 out of 12) during semester. In addition, tutorial attendance is compulsory in weeks 8 and 10, when oral presentations are scheduled (see assessment task 3).

Late Penalties

There are several points to note in regard to late submission of assignments:

1. Unless students have negotiated an extension based on documented evidence of significant disruption to their studies, a penalty of 5% per day will apply to late submission of assignments.
2. Again, unless otherwise negotiated, assignments will not be accepted at all AFTER the date on which marked assignments are returned to all students in the unit.
3. Requests for extensions for assignments are submitted online via Ask (http://ask.mq.edu.au) and granted by the Unit Convenor. Ordinarily, no extensions of time for submission of written work will be granted since ample time for its preparation will have been given. If an extension is required for medical or other extenuating circumstances, an application must be made in accordance with the Macquarie University Disruptions to Study Policy (see http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html). The Professional Authority Form (PAF) is the officially required documentation, which must be completed by a registered health professional or professional within Macquarie University Campus Wellbeing and Support Services. A copy of the PAF is available online from: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html. All requests for extensions should be made prior to the due date for the assignment. If an extension is granted the authorisation section of the form must be submitted with the assignment. Failure to do so will result in a late penalty being applied as the marker will not know that an extension has been granted.

Academic Honesty

Academic honesty is an integral part of the core values and principles contained in the Macquarie University Ethics Statement. The Policy covering Academic Honesty is available on the web at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html

Plagiarism is an example of dishonest academic behaviour and is defined by the Policy on Academic honesty as: “Using the work or ideas of another person and presenting this as your own without clear acknowledgement of the source of the work or ideas”.

Plagiarism is a serious breach of the University's rules and carries significant penalties.  The Academic honesty Procedure is available at http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/procedure.html

This procedure notes the following responsibilities for students:

• Act in accordance with the principles of the Academic Honesty Policy.
• Become familiar with what academic dishonesty is, what are appropriate referencing techniques and the consequences of poor practice.
• Seek assistance from the unit convenor (or their nominee) to remedy any deficits or if you are unsure of discipline specific practice.
• Submit only work of which you are the author or that properly acknowledges others.
• Do not lend your original work to any other person for any reason.
• Keep drafts of your own authored work and notes showing the authorship or source of ideas that are not your own.

The penalties which can be applied for academic dishonesty are outlined in the Academic Dishonesty – Schedule of Penalties which can be found at:http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/schedule_penalties.html 

The penalties range from applying a fail grade for the assessment task or requiring the student to re-submit the assessment task for a mark no greater than 50 to applying a fail grade to the unit of study and referral to the University Discipline committee.

You must read the University's Policy and Procedure on Academic Honesty.

In summary, remember that you, as a good student, are responsible for ensuring academic integrity practices are followed at all times. Your first step is to read the University's Academic Honesty Policy, and make sure you know what constitutes good practice. Then make sure you know how to reference and cite correctly. There are other practices we need to consider, and one of these is the potential for collusion.

Informal study groups are encouraged as a good way to assist your learning, but please remember that all your independently assessed assignments must be totally independently completed. Unless you are doing a group project where each member contributes to producing one piece of work, for which you get the one mark, using part or all of someone else's work constitutes collusion and breaches the University's Academic Honesty policy.

Do not collude with any other student by selling, giving, lending, explaining or showing all or parts of your independently assessed work/answers/past or current assignments, and do not ask to buy, borrow, see and use all or parts of the work of another student.

University Policy on Grading

Academic Senate has a set of guidelines for the achievement of grades across the range from fail to high distinction.  Your final result will include one of these grades plus a standardised numerical grade (SNG). 

On occasion your raw mark for a unit (i.e., the total of your marks for each assessment item) may not be the same as the SNG which you receive. 

For more information please refer to the Macquarie University Handbook.

Classes

Lectures: Students attend one 1-hour lecture per week for this unit, which is scheduled for Mondays from 1 pm to 2 pm in W6D Lotus Theatre. The lecture programme is outlined in this guide.

Tutorials: There is one 2-hour tutorial per week for this unit. Tutorials begin in the second week of semester. Six optional tutorial times are offered as indicated below.

Note: Students will be able to access the recording of the lecture through iLearn, but must attend the compulsory tutorial class each week. It is an assessment requirement of this unit that students attend at least 75% of tutorial classes (9 out of 12) during semester.

Required and recommended texts and/or materials

The prescribed text for this unit is: Litosseliti, L. (Ed.) (2010). Research methods in linguistics. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury. 

A secondary (recommended) text is: Wray, A., & Bloomer, A. (2013). Projects in linguistics and language studies (3rd Edition). New York, N.Y.: Routledge 

See the unit website for details of other required readings for tutorials and assessment exercises.

Unit web page

The web page for this unit can be found at: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au

Technologies used and required

Word processing is needed for completing assessments 1, 2, 3, and 5; internet access is needed for downloading lecture and tutorial materials and for uploading assignments.

No other technologies.