folios and workshopping roster

folio outline recap: READ THIS PLEASE!

Due date is Monday June 6, 5pm. I can’t give extensions on this. If work is late, it will lose marks for each day late, and there will come a point during that week where it will be too late for me to mark it at all; I don’t have an exact mark submission date but it will be early the following week.

Special consideration is another matter that’s dealt with by the faculty.

Marks are going to be given on a standard curve, as with all undergrad subjects, spread across my two classes. This may mean some of you get lower or higher marks than the work warrants; my hands are tied on this one.

Folio requirements are in the reader, but to recap:

4000 words (I’ll allow +/- 10%)

Each piece can be between 1000 and 2500 words (each +/- 10%)

At least two pieces, maximum four (mathematically).

Submission needs to be through the office, with a cover sheet, but if you can manage it I’d also like electronic copies as text or .doc (NOT .docx, my software is archaic.) Email to j.sinclair@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (and if you have real problems with submitting in person on time, you can do this to get it to me sooner, as long as the office copy goes in asap.)

Attach a stamped, addressed envelope if you want your work back. If you do this I’ll give you written feedback as well. If you don’t, the work goes back to the office but isn’t retrievable; it’s held for a while then binned. (if you forget, you can drop an envelope off marked attention to me by the start of semester two, and I can still get it sent back.)

Each piece must fit one or more of the themes in the reader. You must briefly nominate/justify the theme(s) – if you need more than a few lines to do this, contact me beforehand to make sure it’s not stretching it too far.

Each piece must have a different theme (though if a piece covers two themes, you can re-use

Titles and supplementary images etc are good but not essential; images etc don’t count towards marking unfortunately.

For poetry and other unusual approaches, please talk to me about word length etc.

If possible please talk to me before class or during the break, particularly on Wednesdays when I often have to go by 12.30.

I’ll be making times to see students in the study break week; probably close to existing class times of Tuesday and Wednesday mornings (you can come on a different day to your class), but check back here or with me to confirm that.

I can’t read drafts but I can discuss specific questions you find in your writing and try to help you break logjams.


workshopping: let me know if you don’t have a slot listed below.

TUESDAY:

week 10

Connor
Romina
Tim

week 11

Sam
Emily
Jessica
Claire

week 12

Gabrielle
Nathan
Hillary
Margaret

WEDNESDAY


week 10

Charles
Michael
Rebecca (was week 9)
Laura (was week 9)

week 11

Tom
Sasha
Kevin
James
Stephanie

week 12

Bridget
Ainslie
Ben
Lauren

ps: some of you are still to do your pitches, particularly on Tuesdays. we WILL get around to them. they really are useful, in terms of focus and practising “selling” your work.