Course Requirements

[Atlas]

Presentation

All the work you hand in should adhere to the following guidelines:

• Typed: computer printouts, electric or manual typewriters are all acceptable; handwritten work is not.
• 1½ or double-spaced text.
• Written on one side only of A4 sheets.
• 12 or 14-point type: smaller or larger is unacceptable.
• Margins at least 2.5 cm (1 inch) all around (including top and bottom).

Submit assignments either in the Assignment slot on level 2 of the Atrium building, or directly to your lecturer during the workshop.

NB: Assignments may also be submitted through Stream to establish a deadline. A hardcopy will still be required for marking, though.

Marking

You will be graded not on the quality of the experience or feelings you describe in your writing (whether poetry or prose), but on:

• how well it meets the assignment requirements
• how effective it is as a piece of writing.
• the cogency with which you communicate the ideas that lie behind your work.

Presentation and grammar are also very important. Hastily thrown-together, sloppily formatted work is unlikely to achieve a good grade.

Grading of creative work can be particularly sensitive. If you disagree with a mark, I suggest that you wait for a few days before talking to us about it. Give yourself that much time to reread and reflect on the grade and the comments. If you still have a query or complaint after that, you should certainly get in touch with your marker.

Late Assignments

All work is due in workshops on the dates given in the Course Timetable.

Late work, without an extension, will incur a penalty of one mark per day.

If it is more than one week late, your marker may refuse to accept or grade it.

Extensions

If you want an extension, you must ask for one before the assignment is due. They will be given sparingly, in cases of bereavement, illness or family crisis. You will be asked to provide medical certificates for illness.

E-mail Communication

Under no circumstances will e-mailed electronic texts of assignments or exercises be printed out for you by the School.

Under no circumstances are you entitled to ask for address details for other students, either individually or as part of a group-list.

E-mail should be used only:

• to request an extension on an assignment.
  NB: This may or may not be granted. You are not guaranteed a favourable response.


• to explain an absence from class.
  NB: You must provide a medical certificate if it is health-related. If you fail to provide a satisfactory excuse, it will continue to be counted against you as an unexplained absence.


• to establish the date of completion of an assignment.
  NB: a hardcopy must always be handed in to the School as well.

Use of Laptop Computers in Class

No laptop may be used in any lecture, tutorial or workshop in this paper without the prior permission of the lecturer or tutor. That permission will be limited to cases of actual need (RSI problems or other physical disabilities).

Plagiarism

We take plagiarism extremely seriously. If you take all or part of someone else’s work without acknowledgement and present it as your own, you can expect to receive – at the very least – a zero grade for that assignment.

Depending on the seriousness of the offence, you may also face failure in the course as a whole.

If in doubt, ask. Not only your words, but also the plots and ideas you employ must be your own unaided work.

[Malinowski at Work]