This is a 15 credit paper, 100 % internally assessed. This is how the marks are divided up:
The Fiction Portfolio: 35 %
consisting of
- 1 Revised Class Story: 25 percent
- 1 Completed Class Exercise: 10 percent
The Poetry Portfolio: 35 %
consisting of
- 1 Revised Class Poem: 25 percent
- 1 Completed Class Exercise: 10 percent
Peer Review 1: Fiction: 10 %
Peer Review 2: Poetry: 10 %
Participation: 10 %
= 100 %
NB: Both the fiction and poetry portfolios are compulsory parts of the assessment. You must have them accepted for grading in order to be eligible to pass the course.
You are also required to have attended sufficient classes throughout the semester to receive a participation grade from your tutor.
The two in-class peer reviews and the craft essay are, however, not compulsory. If you miss any of them you will simply lose the grades for that assignment.
Your portfolio must include the following components:
- Revision of class story
- One completed exercise
This is a revision of the story you originally copied and distributed to your tutorial group. Be sure to attach the original version of the story as well.
It can be, but does not have to be based on one of the fiction exercises in the course. However, you may not base it on the same exercise included elsewhere in your portfolio.
You don’t have to have followed the suggestions and feedback offered to you by your classmates or tutor but you should show evidence of having at least considered them. The word limit is still set between 1,000 and 2,500 words long).
[A note on revision: Changing a few words and some punctuation does not constitute substantial revision. Re-vision your original idea – make it new. This is a rewrite rather than a light edit. If you submit more or less the same story discussed in class, your tutor has already given you an indication of the grade it will probably receive.]
These could be any of the five Fiction Exercises started in class and completed at home. In this section of the portfolio you must follow the exercise instructions precisely. You may not include any exercise which you’ve used as the basis for your short story (no. 1. above).
[A note on length: The exercise you submit can be as short as a single page or as long as 500 words long. Please on’t go beyond that length, and be careful to indicate the name and number of the exercise you've done.]
Your portfolio must include the following components:
- Revision of class poem
- One completed exercise
Your poem can be inspired either by one of the poems in the anthology, or written independently, or written as a response to one of the exercises (though it cannot be based on an exercise included elsewhere in your portfolio).
Be careful to attach the original class version of your poem as well as the revised one. You don’t have to have followed the suggestions and feedback offered to you by your classmates or tutor but you should show evidence of having at least considered them.
Both the poem and the poetry exercise you submit for grading in this course should be at least 14 lines long, with the sole exception of haiku. If you include haiku in your portfolio, either as a poem or an exercise, you must provide at least three of them (either linked, or as three individual three-line poems).
[A note on revision: Changing a few words and some punctuation does not constitute substantial revision. Re-vision your original idea – make it new. This is a rewrite rather than a light edit. If you submit more or less the same poem you already read in class, your tutor has already given you an indication of the grade it will probably receive.]
These could be any one of the five Poetry Exercises started in class. You don’t need to attach your drafts and working notes – just a complete version of the exercise. In this section of the portfolio you must follow the exercise instructions precisely. Please also indicate the name and number of the exercise you've done.
You may not include any exercise which you’ve used as the basis for your class poem (no. 1. above).
The two peer reviews you hand in with your portfolios should be based on the two oral critiques which you give in class to members of your peer-editing group.
How should you go about preparing for these critiques? Well, start off by making some notes about the poem or story in question:
- What is the overall point? Is it clear to you?
- Are there any details you found particularly effective? Why?
- What are some specific ways the author might go about improving it?
It is important that you come to class prepared to lead a discussion on this poem/ story, not just to read out your notes. Come prepared to speak, not just to read.
You will, however, be asked to hand in these rough draft notes for your workshop teacher to comment on. These comments should assist you in preparing a final version of the critique to be handed in for assessment.
Each of your two written Peer Reviews is a chance to discuss a classmate's story or poem more fully and more formally than is possible in class discussion. Specifically, you will write a 500-word essay in which you argue where that story or poem succeeds and where it might be improved.
To do so, you will need to engage with at least three points of critique. Do so by focusing on those raised by workshop discussions, preferably in relation to the story’s emotional centre or potential emotional centre (what it is about, emotionally). You will do so by calling on at least three stories from the Course Book of Readings to help illustrate those points.
Treat the review as an essay. Begin with an opening paragraph that gives an overall preview of your review. Break your thoughts into cohesive paragraphs that begin with clear topic sentences. Each paragraph should have a central point. Make clear transitions as you move from paragraph to paragraph. Indent your paragraphs; double-space. Your responses should be written in full sentences, following the rules of grammar and punctuation.
One half of this grade will be allotted according to how constructively and consistently you have taken part in class discussions and activities during the semester.
There are no marks for attendance as such, since you are expected to be at every session.
There will, however, be a simple one-question quiz about that week’s readings at each workshop which will count for half a mark each (x 10 = 5 marks).
There will be a lot of demands made on your organizational abilities in this course. Think ahead, and always come prepared.
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