EL4003:12
English 4 Honours Thesis
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: 24 units of level 3 EL subjects including EL3005 and EL3025 (Townsville); substantial achievement in 3 levels of EL subjects (Cairns)
Inadmissable Subject Combination: EL4004
Full year.
Staff:
Appointed supervisor.
Topic to be approved by the Head of School.
Learning Objectives:
An English Honours thesis should demonstrate the following qualities:
- clarity of concept and originality of research project;
- appropriate and adequate research;
- monograph-style organisation, including introduction, chapter division and conclusion;
- clarity, subtlety and coherence of argument;
- evidence of understanding of and engagement with contemporary or other theoretical approaches relevant to the topic, and/or of the hermeneutic in which the argument of the thesis is conducted;
- technical correctness, including grammar, spelling, syntax, presentation of references and bibliographical data;
- a fluent and readable style and a scholarly manner and tone.
Assessment by completed thesis to be submitted by the end of September (100%).