Notice
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
Sarah Forget
12 SW, Room 552
By appointment
Convenor
Marc Orlando
12 SW, Room 554
By appointment
Tutor
Jan-Louis Kruger
12 SW, Room 523
By appointment
Tutor
Jean Cho
12 SW, Room 520
By appointment
Tutor
Jing Fang
12 SW, Room 517
By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
TRAN908 or TRAN8908 or APPL902 or APPL8020
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit will focus on individual research projects in translation and interpreting in order to enhance students' research capability. Students will be required to identify research problems based on personal learning reflections in areas such as skill development specific to translation and interpreting, data gathering and data analysis. Students will then be guided by individual supervisors to explore the identified research questions. Research supervisors will solidly guide students in terms of research design, data gathering and research implementation. Based on critical readings, classroom and/or online discussions, and feedback from supervisors, students will have an opportunity to further sophisticate techniques and methods of doing research by pursuing an area of research that is close to their own. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Research report | 60% | No | Week 13 |
Literature review | 40% | No | Week 8 |
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 55 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 60%
The final assessment task should report the details of individual independent research projects in approximately 5,000 words. It should include introduction, literature review, methodology, results and discussion, and conclusion.
Assessment Type 1: Literature review
Indicative Time on Task 2: 35 hours
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 40%
This assignment requires students to review and extend the literature review that they completed for their final assessment in APPL902. Drawing on the tutor feedback provided in APPL902, the revised literature review (approximately 3,000 words) will be prepared as the final version to be presented in the research project report (Assignment 2). In addition, an annotated bibliography, general and specific, of ten new references that are directly relevant to their research project must be included.
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2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
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Unit information based on version 2021.03 of the Handbook