Late assignments

a) 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. Please make sure you discuss any application for extensions with the unit convenor before the assignment  is due.

b) Again, unless otherwise negotiated, assignments will not be accepted at all AFTER the date on which the marked assignments are returned to all students in the unit.

Academic Honesty

As a good student, you 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.

The textbook for this unit is Archer, D., Aijmer, K., & Wichmann, A. (2012). Pragmatics: An advanced resource book for students. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN:978-0415497879

You will need to buy a copy of this book, which can be obtained through the co-op bookshop at Macquarie.

Another book which is useful for background reading is Bowes, H. & Martin, K. (2007). Communication across cultures: Mutual understanding in a global world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Reading material for this course also consists of book chapters and some journal articles that can be found on e-reserve, and other journal articles can be accessed directly through the library catalogue. Weekly reading lists will be available on the i-learn site, which you can access from the first day of the course. Reading guides and questions are provided for the key readings.  

For copyright reasons, some of the items on e-reserve may not be available for the entire period of the course. This means that students must download them when they are available and also that it is no cause for concern if readings do not appear until shortly before the corresponding module is due to commence.

The APPL711 website has a range of resources, including course notes, tasks, and optional web tasks, etc.

There is a range of other resources available to Macquarie students, including:

• electronic access to a variety of book chapters and journal articles at http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/reserve/
• electronic access to journals at http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/journalfinder/
• electronic document delivery for journal articles and book chapters not available locally at http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/docsup/

See the following URL for more information:

http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/support/postresources.htm

For current updates, lecture times and classrooms, please consult the MQ Timetables website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au

Some changes have been made to the assessment procedures of this unit, in order to conform to the faculty's new assessment policy. These have been approved by the Faculty Standards and Quality Committee.