ENGLISH COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT BRIEF 2024
Unit title,
Code & Leader
Approaches
to English, 433Z0004
Dr Eleanor
Beal
Assignment title & weighting
Task details
and instructions
For this
assignment you are required to provide a 1,750 word critical essay referring
to ONE longer text or TWO dramatic monologues, to:
Critically
evaluate the ways in which the chosen unit text/s can be considered a
critique of power.
The essay should
contain an argument that organizes the essay and an analysis and
interpretation of the text’s contexts and formal properties that shows
development from the skills learnt the previous semester. It should also be
supported using TWO academic sources (from the unit or self-chosen) that shows
understanding of how to use sources to frame and support arguments and ideas.
Quotation must be referenced using MMU CITE THEM RIGHT Harvard.
Learning
Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate
argument and discussion.
2.
Demonstrate skills
of close reading
and textual analysis.
3. Demonstrate appropriate use of and
referencing of secondary sources, using MMU CITE THEM RIGHT Harvard.
4. Demonstrate the ability to relate key
theme to textual structure, style and form
Support arrangements
·
Teaching
will comprise of a weekly lecture and seminar on topics, themes and
approaches to reading and analysing texts from a range of periods, literary
genres and movements.
·
The skills
required for this
essay, including skills in analysis, research, referencing and writing
will form part of the weekly teaching on this unit and on the
Academic Practice 2 unit.
· Tutorial time in which we will discuss your
assignment on a one-to-one basis is available throughout the teaching term
and arranged by appointment. In addition, we will dedicate the final two
weeks of the unit to assignment preparation.
Additional sources of support available to English students are detailed in the English Department
‘Sources of Support’ resource at the top of your unit Moodle area.
Further,
generic guidance
on assessments in
the English Department is provided in the
English Department ‘Assessment FAQs’, at the top of the unit Moodle area and
in the Assessments pages of the main MMU website.
Submission
Instructions
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Student Hub should you encounter difficulties.
The essay is 1,750 words and we recommend
sticking to this as closely as possible. The
maximum word count
for coursework includes in-text references but does
not include title or
bibliography.
Marking and Moderation
Procedure
Tutors assess your work with reference to a
set of assessment criteria that are linked to the Unit Learning Outcomes and
to the University Standard Descriptors, and which are published on the unit Moodle area.
Student work is moderated internally, by a member of the English team, and externally, by our external examiners (whose details can be found
on Moodle BA English). The Moderation Map, available in the
‘Assessment FAQs’, shows the journey taken by your assignment once you submit
it.
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which feedback on written assignments becomes available to students
electronically. For more information on what happens to your work once you’ve submitted it, please consult
the Moderation Process
Map in your
Assessment FAQs at the top of this Moodle
Area.
The essay will be marked
using the English
marking criteria for essays, which are posted to the
unit Moodle area. For further guidance, please see the English Department
‘Assessment FAQs’.
For this
assignment you are required to provide a 1,750
word critical essay referring to ONE
longer text or TWO dramatic monologues,
to:
Critically evaluate the ways in which the chosen unit
text/s can be considered a critique of power.
The essay
should contain an argument that organizes the essay and an analysis and
interpretation of the text’s contexts and formal properties that shows
development from the skills learnt the previous semester. It should also be
supported using TWO academic sources (from the unit or self-chosen) that shows
understanding of how to use sources to frame and support arguments and
ideas.
Quotation must be referenced using MMU CITE THEM RIGHT Harvard
Demonstrate argument and discussion.
Demonstrate skills of close reading and textual analysis.
Demonstrate appropriate use of and referencing of
secondary sources, using MMU CITE
THEM RIGHT Harvard.
Demonstrate the ability to relate key theme to
textual structure, style and form.
The two dramatic monologues i have chosen are poems from robert browning.
my last duchess and phyphorias lover
Demonstrate
appropriate use of referencing of secondary sources
How does a victorian
monologue discuss power and patriarchy. Compare texts. Explore discuss evaluate
analyse.
Make a convincing
argument
Analyse elements of
language, genre and form that supports general argument.
Background
information and context.
Find any sources
relating to the text you are examining that support your ideas. Choose and
write in selected quotes with references.
Engage with the
question straight away for introduction.
Clear indication of
essays main focus and point.
Annotate
What kind of text is
this, a poem, what are the relevant rules
What genre what
period and social/political climate
What
movement or subgenre?
Social
realism, Satire?
Dramatic monologue?
Postcolonial?
Protest?
What are the traits and conventions of this?
Can you find a critical definition?
What key
words are in the question? What do I need to research to understand these
themes and issues?
What critical materials help me with this?
What does
the primary text do and say?
Pyphorias
lover
My last
duchess
Focus on
particulars and specifics:
who is speaking?
where is the scene located? at what time of
day?
what kind
of language is being used?
what
allusions are made?
what kind of punctuation is employed?
how is the scene structured?
what effect does it have?
please include references in the text havard style and a bibliography the end of the text. bibliography not in word count. essay should be 1750 words.
TWO ACADEMIC SOURCES TO SUPPORT ESSAY-
The Cambridge companion to Victorian poetry
Book
by Joseph Bristow
©2006
AND
Poetry: the basics
Book
by Jeffrey Wainwright
2011
