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This is to be approximately 8,000 words long, on a topic of your choice,
preferably one you've talked over with me. It should work with and develop
some of the ideas of the course, but in a new context: put them into conjunction
with other texts, other sets of ideas, other literary texts. It should
make explicit and detailed reference to at least one of the non-fictional
texts on the set text list (that is, not Ryman's 253). It is due
in at the end of semester.
Essays will be given back with commentary at the end of the exam period
A list of suggested topics is probably inappropriate for an honours course.
Contact me, and we'll custom-build an essay topic to fit in with what
interests you, the subjects you're studying, and your honours dissertation.
Length:
8,000 words
Due date: Monday
16 June 2003.
Weighting:
100%
Criteria:
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The proposed rules of the game are:
- The total number of words you contribute should be around 2,000
(this length is up for negotiation in class). This can be distributed
among several contributions. Each contribution should be working
with material dealt with in the reading or the class discussions for
the week in which it is contributed. It may, though it does not need
to, engage with issues I will have raised in my notes for that week,
or with issues which other participants have raised and discussed.
- Every contribution must:
- have at least two links to existing pages on the site.
If you haven’t already made your submission in HTML, when you email
it to me you’ll need to specify just which words of your text you
want to act as clickable hotlinks, and just which page (or part of
a page) you want those links to go to.
- have at least two links from existing pages on the site.
Again, email me with the full details: which words or phrases or pictures
on which page do you want to link to your new contribution?
- Any contribution may:
- include pictures, sound files, even streaming video if (and
only if) they are not covered by copyright. (You should also
keep in mind that the novelty of online multimedia palls pretty quickly
if you spend ages downloading by modem only to find you’ve just used
up 10MB of your disk space on something completely trivial. The bigger
it is, the better its justification needs to be.) A picture, unfortunately,
cannot be counted as 1,000 words.
- have links to sites outside Reading Time. These should be relevant,
and actually add something to what you’re saying. If they’re deep
links (to somewhere other than a site’s home page), you should also
include the URL to the home page, and the name of the site. When you
email me your contribution, tell me what you want linked, and the
URL you want it linked to. Before you send it, check the URL particularly
carefully: it won’t work if there’s a typo in it. Make sure the site’s
still currently available, too.
- As I’ll be taking responsibility for the site as a whole, I’ll also
have the final editorial say in what does and doesn’t go up. I have
to say it here so that the rules are explicit: what I won't post
is anything which I regard as defamatory, offensive, illegal, unethical,
for commercial benefit, or just beyond the brief of the course.
- You should email contributions to me (tony.thwaites@mailbox.uq.edu.au),
rather than to the group (engl6080@yahoogroups.com). It's important
you email it to me rather than give me hard copy: I really can't afford
the time to type everything up myself. If you can HTML it yourself,
you’re most welcome to (any emailer which produces formatted
text is producing HTML), but that's not required.
- Once the contribution's sent to me, I'll do the HTML, and the uploading.
All your contributions will be attributed to their author. Once it’s
on the site, I’ll email the group with the new URL, and the new text.
Each contribution will appear on a new web page, unless there are specific
reasons for doing otherwise.
As we decided, contributions are not assessible. They're on the level
of class participation and attendance: valuable and active ways of working
through the ideas we're dealing with in the reading and the long essay.
You are welcome to use the site and the email list to float ideas you
want to develop in your essay, and conversely to develop your essay from
ideas which made their first appearance on the site.
Length:
approx. 2,000 words, divided amongst several brief contributions to the
site
Due date:
throughout semester, but all to be completed by Tuesday 10 June 2003
Weighting:
none
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