WRITING, CITING AND REFERENCING

• This unit uses the APA Style. Guidelines can be found at http://guides.lib.monash.edu/ld.php?content_id=12586146
• You are strongly advised to use bibliographic software such as  Mendeley to organise your reading resources and produce correct reference lists for your assignments. 
•  Macquarie University provides a number of services intended to help students with academic writing.
• Use scholarly books and articles from electronic or print scholarly journals. You can read Wikipedia or any other generic source for general ideas but do not use these in your work.   

Late assignments The policy regarding late assignments has now been standardised across postgraduate Linguistics units. 

• Late submissions without an extension will receive a penalty of 5% of the total mark available for the assignment per day
• Late submission of an assignment without an extension will not be permitted after marks have been released to the rest of the class.
• Extensions will only be given in special circumstances, and can be requested by completing the Special Consideration request at ask.mq.edu.au and providing the requisite supporting documentation.
• For more information on Special Consideration, see the university website https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration
• Assignments submitted after the deadline, regardless of the reason, will be marked and returned at a date determined by the unit convenor.

Extensions cannot continue beyond the start of the following semester, and students should be aware that long extensions may impact graduation dates.

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.

Do not reuse any work you have presented for assessment in this or another unit. This will activate a turnitin alert.

Text books

**  Piller , I. 2011. Intercultural Communication: A critical Introduction. Edinburgh: EUP

** Bowe, Heather, Kylie Martin, and Howard Manns 2014   Communication Across Cultures 2^nd Edition CUP

You should obtain a copy of these books if possible. The library also has some hard and e-copies available

Other readings

 See the LING903 webpage for full details of weekly readings. A new unit will be made available every Monday. 

Reading material for this course 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.  

The LING903 website has a range of resources, including course notes, tasks, online discussions, etc. To login to the website, go to the is http://learn.mq.edu.au.

There are also links to advice and assistanceon this web page.

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

Week 1: Language in Society  (JM)

Week 2:Language Culture and Thought  (LL)

Week 3:Culture in everyday interactions (JM)

Week 4:Culture and Vocabulary (JM)

Week 5:The power of words: Linguistic Taboos (JM)

Week 6:Non-Verbal communication (JM) 

Week 7: Culture and metaphor (JM) 

Week 8. Cultural differences in writing  (JM) 

Week 9:Culture and communication in Business settings (LL) 

Week 10: Culture and communication in Health provider settings (JM) 

Week 11:Cultural issues in interpreting and translating (guest lecturer - TBA) 

Week 12: Teaching, Learning and access to cultural knowledge (JM)

Week 13: Intercultural communication training (JM)