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As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group activities on campus, and most will keep an online version available to those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Associate Professor Kate Rossmanith
10HA248 Office250
TBC
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
In this unit we look at techniques and structures writers use to engage ever-more fickle audiences. Key readings are drawn from a number of platforms – books, feature articles, blogs, graphic novels, indie publishing – to exemplify some of the more dynamic and engaging recent trends in creative nonfiction writing. We focus in particular on new and novel ways of approaching the past – historical events, family sagas, crimes, eccentric and little known phenomena – and on new modes of writing about science, sport, technology and social change. Students are guided to find and develop their own original stories, and produce pieces of quality writing, suitable for print or broadcast. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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
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 5, 11 & 12 of the unit, or as requested (consultations 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.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Writing exercises | 20% | No | ongoing |
Research report and portfolio | 30% | No | 16/04/21 at 11.59pm |
Major project | 50% | No | 02/06/21 at 11.59pm |
Assessment Type 1: Reflective Writing
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: ongoing
Weighting: 20%
Produce short written pieces to develop writing and conceptual skills.
Refer to iLearn for further information.
Assessment Type 1: Portfolio
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: 16/04/21 at 11.59pm
Weighting: 30%
The research report will detail how the research will be used in the creative work. The portfolio will showcase the breadth and depth of research conducted for the creative work.
Refer to iLearn for further information.
Assessment Type 1: Creative work
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: 02/06/21 at 11.59pm
Weighting: 50%
Students are required to produce a literary non-fiction article.
Refer to iLearn for further information.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
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
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Students seeking more policy resources can visit Student Policies (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/policies). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
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Unit information based on version 2021.02 of the Handbook