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:
- 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;
- to develop and employ some of the critical and theoretical ideas and methods introduced in EL3025 in preparation for the level 4 Honours thesis;
- to develop ability to focus and interrelate an introduction, chapters and a conclusion;
- to develop methodological self-awareness;
- 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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