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Close Reading

Due date: 24th March, 2023, 11.59pm ACST
30% of grade
1,500 words +/- 10% (e.g. 1,350-1,750 words)

Write a 1,500-word close analysis of ONE of the extracts provided. Identify which extract you have chosen at the top of your document. Do NOT include the entirety of the extract in your document.

In your analysis, consider both the content and the form of the work, and pay particular attention to how style and substance interact. Identify the affective structures at work in the extract, and consider what affective responses the extract elicits in the reader. Consider the feeling of the text, and how this is generated. Address how the extract engages with broader cultural structures of feeling and affects, and what this reveals about the role of literature in generating emotional attachment, response, and vocabularies.

You may want to consider the following:

Political/historical/cultural context of the piece
Voice/point of view
Address to the reader
Structure
Rhetorical devices
Literary/poetic techniques, including but not limited to:
mood
tone
imagery
diction
syntax
rhythm/rhyme
alliteration/assonance
any other literary/poetic techniques you think are relevant
You are required to do your own analysis. While you are welcome to refer to any of Course Readings or other scholarly reseach in your analysis, it is NOT a requirement of the assignment (however if you do, you must cite correctly using MLA 8).

You are encouraged to read the entire essay that the extracts are taken from, and to briefly contextualise the extract within the broader work in your writing. However, this is not a strict requirement of the assignment, and you may choose to focus primarily on the extract.

You must propose an argument about how affect is operating in the extract, and how form contributes to the generation of the 'feeling' of the text in your close analysis. You will be assessed on your argument, your analysis, the textual evidence that you provide (e.g. quotations and paraphrasing from the source), your written expression (both accuracy and style), and your engagement with course discussions more broadly.

Research Essay

Due: 9th June, 2023, 11.59pm ACST
Up to 2,500 words (with a minimum of 2,000 words; includes in-text referencing, does not include Works Cited list)
50% of semester grade

Instructions

Write a research essay of up to 2,500 words (see above for word count parameters) in response to ONE of the essay questions advertised. You must analyse at least two of the primary texts from the course. In your analysis, compare and contrast your chosen texts. Consider both form and content in your argument.

You must refer to at least six scholarly sources (this can include texts from the Required and Recommended Course Readings). If you choose poetry as one of your texts, you must to refer to at least 3 poems by one poet to count as ‘one text.’ You may not write about the same text you analysed in your Close Reading. Write your essay in formal, academic prose. Do not use subheadings or dot points. Use MLA 8 as your citation system. Please see this Library Guide about AI and writing for information.

Discussion Board Participation

Due: throughout the semester (4 posts and 4 responses by the end of the semester)
Word count: equivalent 1,000 words over the semester (approx. 150-200 words per post, 50-100 words per response)
10% of semester grade (grades over all 8 posts/responses averaged to one grade for the assignment as a whole)

There is a thread in the Discussion Board (see ‘Discussions’ tab on MyUni) for the topic each week. The thread will become available on the Monday morning of each week and will close on the Sunday at the end of the week. There will be prompts in each thread to begin a conversation among your peers about the topic for that week.

Over the semester, you will write 4 responses to the set prompts. You may choose any four weeks you want to write about. Each post you make should be about 150-200 words long. Consider the text under consideration that week, the affect you think is represented in that text, the course readings, the lecture, and anything else you think of relevance. You also must reply to 4 posts by your peers over the semester. Your responses should be about 50-100 words long. (Collectively, all 4 of your posts and all 4 responses should be equivalent to 1,000 words).

While you must write clearly and appropriately for university study, you may be more casual in these posts than in standard academic writing. Feel free to include personal reflections, although this should not be the bulk of your writing (e.g. don’t review the text for the week!). If you want to explore or examine the affect or text more creatively, feel free to do so. If you want to bring in visuals (screenshots, memes etc) or links to music or articles that are relevant, you are also welcome to do so (provided anything you link is appropriate for university study - nothing explicit or blocked by uni servers, please).

These discussion board posts are moderated, so please be considered, thoughtful, and generous in your responses – this is an opportunity to learn together and not an opportunity for reductive or aggressive critique. In your responses, you may want to talk about how someone else's post made you change your thinking, or what it prompted you to think about in turn. We are collaboratively extending our learning through these discussions - your responses do not have to always agree with the original poster but you have to be prepared to say why you didn't, and do so in a productive manner