School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Language and Writing
  • Unit Code

    WRT1101
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Marcella Kathleen POLAIN

Description

The purpose of this unit is to provide students with fresh insights into the origins and principal features of English, and to introduce them to a range of literary genres and relevant issues. Useful literary devices and writing techniques will be explored to extend students own writing skills. Students will attempt a number of writing tasks across a selection of genres in the light of the language study provided in the unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG1102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply drafting, editing and proofreading processes to their own writing or that of their peers.
  2. Apply specific writing processes to a range of creative and practical writing projects.
  3. Demonstrate some understanding of relationships between accepted usage and the grammatical structure of English.
  4. Demonstrate some understanding of specific functions of written language and make comparisons with those of oral language and non-verbal language.
  5. Produce original texts using a range of literary techniques and generic conventions.

Unit Content

  1. Aspects of manuscript preparation and submission.
  2. Drafting, revising, editing and proofing of original creative work.
  3. Oral presentation skills.
  4. Organising, planning and research: the preparation for writing.
  5. Study and research of selected aspects of English language and literature (including genre conventions and traditional grammar).
  6. The writing process - making a start; the influences of readership, purpose and form.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Seminars. Workshops. Research and fieldwork exercises.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioWriting file50%
Creative WorkPresentation20%
TestShort answer and language test30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioWriting file50%
ParticipationJournal and discussion20%
TestShort answer and language test30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Language and Writing
  • Unit Code

    WRT1101
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Marcella Kathleen POLAIN

Description

The purpose of this unit is to provide students with fresh insights into the origins and principal features of English, and to introduce them to a range of literary genres and relevant issues. Useful literary devices and writing techniques will be explored to extend students own writing skills. Students will attempt a number of writing tasks across a selection of genres in the light of the language study provided in the unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG1102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply drafting, editing and proofreading processes to their own writing or that of their peers.
  2. Apply specific writing processes to a range of creative and practical writing projects.
  3. Demonstrate some understanding of relationships between accepted usage and the grammatical structure of English.
  4. Demonstrate some understanding of specific functions of written language and make comparisons with those of oral language and non-verbal language.
  5. Produce original texts using a range of literary techniques and generic conventions.

Unit Content

  1. Aspects of manuscript preparation and submission.
  2. Drafting, revising, editing and proofing of original creative work.
  3. Oral presentation skills.
  4. Organising, planning and research: the preparation for writing.
  5. Study and research of selected aspects of English language and literature (including genre conventions and traditional grammar).
  6. The writing process - making a start; the influences of readership, purpose and form.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Seminars. Workshops. Research and fieldwork exercises.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioWriting file50%
Creative WorkPresentation20%
TestShort answer and language test30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioWriting file50%
ParticipationJournal and discussion20%
TestShort answer and language test30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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