The quizzes
(20% of your assessment) are held at the beginning of each
class, and throughout the session. The quizzes at the beginning
of the session will test your knowledge and understanding of
what is given in the online notes. There will be an opportunity
to discuss any problems you have with the notes during the
session. Later in the session, further quizzes will be given on
the selected literary works or extracts from them (which are
also provided on the website). The questions will be based on
the scheduled linguistic or pragmatic features for each
session.
These texts will then be discussed, in light of the correct
quiz answers given by you. Using these answers as your points of
departure, you will then be required to provide short interpretive responses
(20%) to the texts, taking into consideration the linguistic or
pragmatic features that you have been tested on.
At the end of each session, you will be asked on how you could
piece together your interpretive responses to the literary works
or extracts into essay-length responses. This should be helpful
groundwork for the 2 essays
(1,500 words and 15% each), which you have to submit in each
half of the semester. You will be further asked on how you could
use these linguistic or pragmatic features for writing
literary-stylistics or other theses, and for the more holistic
analysis of, or application to, non-literary texts.
Class participation
(15%) should be viewed as the sum-total of all activities in
class. It is more than just attendance at every session,
although this is the starting point of the assessment of
participation.