Assessment standards in this unit align with the University's grade descriptors, available at: https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and- procedures/policies/assessment

To apply to have your assessment re-marked, please see: http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/ public/download/?id=167914

Examples of relevant and related assessment tasks will be made available on iLearn and will be discussed in tutorials.

Methods of Feedback:

• Informal: comments from tutors during tutorials; through the announcement function in iLearn; interactions with peers during tutorial activities; personal reflections on learning during the course.

• Individual: in email communication with individual students where comments are made by the tutor and/or unit convenor in response to questions related to course activities and assessments; in personal face-to-face consultations during Weeks 6, 11 and 12 of the unit, or as requested (either by phone or face-to-face)

• Formal: general comment and in-text comments attached to assignments marked in Turn-It-In; rubrics; reflections from peers; in-class comments from tutors in regards to assessments; marks are made available through the Gradebook function in iLearn.

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (including weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.

Extensions: Extensions can only be granted by the unit convenor in line with university policy.

There will be no live lectures but lecture recordings are available on ilearn. Tutorials commence in Week 2.

Below is a list of essential readings, which are available through Leganto on iLearn.

• Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Penguin, pp. 15-17.

• Lee Gutkind, You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Da Capo Press 2012, pp. 32-43

• Louise Kiernan, ‘Writing Complicated Stories’, in Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction

  writers’ guide, Kramer and Call (eds), New York: Penguin, pp. 145-147

• Lane Degregory ‘Narrative as a Daily Habit’, in Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction writers’

  guide, Kramer and Call (eds), New York: Penguin, pp.240-243

• Chloe Hooper, ‘Consider the Lily’, The Monthly, June 2006Kate Rossmanith, ‘Many me’,

  The Monthly, February, 2007, pp.25-27

• Kate Rossmanith ‘Jenolan’s Ancient Archives’, The Australian, 2006

• Vanessa Berry, ‘Excavating St Peters’ in Mirror Sydney: an Atlas of Reflections, pp.

  135-147, Giramondo: Sydney, 2017

• Lee Gutkind, ‘Immersion’, in The Art of Creative Nonfiction, John Wiley & Sons 1997, pp.

  99-106

• Helen Garner, ‘Labour Ward, Penrith’, in True Stories: Selected non-fiction, Melbourne:

  Text Publishing, pp 230-242

• Lee Gutkind, ‘Interviewing’, in The Art of Creative Nonfiction, John Wiley & Sons 1997,

  pp. 107-116

• Eve Vincent, ‘Meat-Eaters’, Sydney Review of Books, 8 June 2018

• Kate Rossmanith ‘On the Edge’ The Monthly, August, 2008, pp. 28-30

• Fanny Burney, ‘A mastectomy, 30 September, 1811’ from The Faber and Faber Book of

Reportage, John Carey, (ed) London, Faber, 1987, pp. 272-277

• Naomi Klein, ‘Risky Business,’ from The Nation, January 5, 2004 http://www.thenation.co m/print/article/risky-business, accessed 11 February, 2013

• David Finkel, The Good Soldiers, Melbourne: Scribe 2009, pp.3-24

• Maria Tumarkin, ‘This Narrated Life’, Griffith Review, April 2014

• Peter Doyle ‘Stranger in the House’, Sydney Review of Books, 14 November 2016:

  https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/stranger-in-the-house/

• Kate Rossmanith, Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law,

  Melbourne & London: Hardie Grant Books, pp. 1-9

• Lee Gutkind, ‘Inner Point of View’, in You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Da Capo Press

  2012, pp. 138-182