Please see the ENGL234 Unit Handbook for more detailed information about assessment tasks.

ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION

• Please read The Preparation and Presentation of Essays on the iLearn site.
• Students are required to submit their written work electronically only, via the Turnitin link in the unit’s iLearn site. Note that your essay will not be marked unless it has been submitted via Turnitin in the unit’s iLearn site. Do not send essays via email.
• Return of marked work and feedback will be via the unit’s iLearn site.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION AND SUBMISSION OF LATE ASSIGNMENTS

If you have a legitimate reason for being unable to submit your work on time, for which you can provide documentation, you will need to complete a Special Consideration request (which must be submitted at www.ask.mq.edu.au within 5 working days of the commencement of the disruption).

The full special consideration policy can be found here:

https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-andprocedures/policies/special-consideration

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved,

1. 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
2. no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.

Lectures

You must attend or access the one-hour lecture each week, beginning in week 1.

Please consult the MQ Timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au for updated information. To complete your enrolment in the unit, you must enrol in the weekly lecture as well as one tutorial.

Recorded lectures and slides are available in the ENGL234 iLearn site: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/MQ/

Tutorials

You must attend a 1-hour tutorial each week, beginning in week 1.

Attendance at tutorials is compulsory, and is a prerequisite for both fulfilling the requirements of the unit and for earning the tutorial participation mark. Attendance at tutorials is only a prerequisite for the tutorial mark; active participation, showing significant preparation beforehand, is necessary to earn a good mark.

Policies on Missed Classes:

Absence from more than two tutorials without written explanation (medical or counselling certificate) will result in loss of the whole of the 20% tutorial mark.

Students who miss class as the result of attending a teaching practicum or to participate in sporting or other activities that do not fall under the University’s Special Consideration provisions should alert their tutor beforehand, and complete the allocated task as directed (the written submission of tutorial questions, due within 48 hrs of the missed class). Failure to complete the task may jeopardise the student’s participation mark. These alternative arrangements may extend to a maximum of 2 weeks of the teaching session, other than in exceptional circumstances via prior negotiation with the unit convenor.

Single Missed Class

For a single absence covered by a medical or other certificate, no Special Consideration application is necessary. Rather, email your tutor with an explanation and copy of the certificate, and send written responses to the questions relating to the missed tutorial.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Required (In order of study):

1. Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
2. A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
3. Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief
4. Kate Grenville, The Secret River
5. ENGL234 Unit Reader, available from Co-op Bookshop. This book contains other texts studied in the unit as well as set critical and theoretical readings for the weekly tutorials. It is essential that you buy this book.

Recommended (In order of study):

1. Jerome De Groot, The Historical Novel
2. Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard III, Folger Shakespeare Library edition.
3. George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones  
4. Beverly Jenkins, Indigo (try the Kindle/ebook version; it is much cheaper)

Copies of these books, weekly readings and the items on the List of References below have either been placed in the Library’s Reserve collection or can be accessed via the ENGL 234 Leganto Reading List (linked via the ENGL234 iLearn site).