James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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EL3005:06

Special Research Project

Townsville

Prerequisites: EL3025 at credit level

Individual supervisions plus two-hour weekly seminars. Second semester.

Available to Honours students only.

Staff:

Subject coordinated by Professor P Pierce.

Students write a short book review, develop skills in research, editing and scholarship and complete a long essay on a topic of their own choosing under supervision.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to substantially broaden and develop the research, writing and literary-critical skills and understanding attained at earlier levels, with particular regard to the construction of projects, the formation of arguments, and use of research resources;
  2. to develop and employ some of the critical and theoretical ideas and methods introduced in EL3025 in preparation for the level 4 Honours thesis;
  3. to develop ability to focus and interrelate an introduction, chapters and a conclusion;
  4. to develop methodological self-awareness;
  5. to acquire command of the conventions of scholarship and scholarly referencing.

Assessment by long essay (60%); book review (20%); seminar participation (20%).


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