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

    Biographical and Autobiographical Writing
  • Unit Code

    WRT3120
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

In this unit students hone their research and writing skills by focusing on an auto/biographical topic of their own choice. Students engage in careful project planning and preparation and explore various life-writing approaches, methods and techniques. They collect, synthesise and adapt data from diverse sources and experiment with different ways of writing to create a substantial and original auto/biographical work, which is accompanied by critical reflection.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded WRT2210, WRT3310

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify theoretical, methodological, legal, ethical and culturally appropriate approaches to biographical/autobiographical writing.
  2. Initiate, design, propose and undertake independent research for a biographical/autobiographical project.
  3. Evaluate, synthesise and employ selected information and literary strategies to create an original biographical/autobiographical work.
  4. Explain and justify methodological, technical and editorial choices in relation to specified biographical/autobiographical aims.

Unit Content

  1. Biographical versus autobiographical writing.
  2. Forms, theories, sources, ethics and legalities of auto/biographical writing.
  3. Accuracy, synthesis, experimentation and evaluation.
  4. Proposal writing, including literature review.
  5. Auto/biographical writing.
  6. Reflective essay writing.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProposal 1 = 5% (description, timetable) Proposal 2 = 25%(incl. background, aims, literature review, theoretical framework, methods, ethics, timetable etc).30%
AssignmentBiographical or autobiographical work 50%
ExegesisCritical/reflective essay 20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProposal 1 =5% (description, timetable) Proposal 2 =25% (incl. background, aims, literature review, theoretical framework, methods, ethics, timetable etc).30%
AssignmentBiographical or autobiographical work 50%
ExegesisCritical/reflective essay 20%

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

    Biographical and Autobiographical Writing
  • Unit Code

    WRT3120
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

In this unit students hone their research and writing skills by focusing on an auto/biographical topic of their own choice. Students engage in careful project planning and preparation and explore various life-writing approaches, methods and techniques. They collect, synthesise and adapt data from diverse sources and experiment with different ways of writing to create a substantial and original auto/biographical work, which is accompanied by critical reflection.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded WRT2210, WRT3310

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify theoretical, methodological, legal, ethical and culturally appropriate approaches to biographical/autobiographical writing.
  2. Initiate, design, propose and undertake independent research for a biographical/autobiographical project.
  3. Evaluate, synthesise and employ selected information and literary strategies to create an original biographical/autobiographical work.
  4. Explain and justify methodological, technical and editorial choices in relation to specified biographical/autobiographical aims.

Unit Content

  1. Biographical versus autobiographical writing.
  2. Forms, theories, sources, ethics and legalities of auto/biographical writing.
  3. Accuracy, synthesis, experimentation and evaluation.
  4. Proposal writing, including literature review.
  5. Auto/biographical writing.
  6. Reflective essay writing.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProposal 1 = 5% (description, timetable) Proposal 2 = 25%(incl. background, aims, literature review, theoretical framework, methods, ethics, timetable etc).30%
AssignmentBiographical or autobiographical work 50%
ExegesisCritical/reflective essay 20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProposal 1 =5% (description, timetable) Proposal 2 =25% (incl. background, aims, literature review, theoretical framework, methods, ethics, timetable etc).30%
AssignmentBiographical or autobiographical work 50%
ExegesisCritical/reflective essay 20%

Core Reading(s)

  • Miller, Patti. (2001). Writing your life : a journey of discovery ; workshops & anthology (2nd ed.). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/779120052

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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