19-20 EN5116: Reading As A Writer
EN5116 Reading as a Writer (20 credits)
Teaching: Spring, 1.5 hours per week
Assessment: one essay of 3000-4000 words
Your workshop for your chosen pathway and Reading as a Writer seminar will usually be taught on the same day. See timetable here for times and locations:
https://webtimetables.royalholloway.ac.uk/SWS/SDB1920SWS/Login.aspx
Part Time students will take Reading as a Writer in their second year.
Reading lists will be confirmed in the second half of the Autumn term and visible here:
https://rhul.rl.talis.com/modules/en5116.html
Tutorials and supervisions are by arrangement.
KEY TEACHING STAFF:
Fiction
Dr Eley Williams: Eley.Williams@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Anna Whitwham Anna.Whitwham@rhul.ac.uk
Ms Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa.Mohamed@rhul.ac.uk
Literary Non-Fiction
Dr Sean Borodale: Sean.Borodale@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Lavinia Greenlaw: Lavinia.Greenlaw@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Eley Williams: Eley.Williams@rhul.ac.uk
Poetry
Dr Sean Borodale: Sean.Borodale@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Lavinia Greenlaw: Lavinia.Greenlaw@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Eley Williams: Eley.Williams@rhul.ac.uk
Poetic Practice
Professor Redell Olsen: Redell.Olsen@rhul.ac.uk
Assessment (20 credits)
An essay of 3,000 – 4,000 words for Reading as a Writer will be submitted for feedback at the beginning of the Summer Term.
Deadlines for assessments will be released to students at the start of the year, and will be reflected on the online turnitin submission boxes on the relevant Moodle pages.
Students should submit all written work online via the Turnitin box at the top of the Reading as a Writer Introduction on the Reading as a Writer home page. All work submitted on Turnitin should be anonymous and submitted by candidate number only.
You should make your candidate number the title of the submission, along with the name of your workshop tutor and confirmation of which course you are submitting work for (eg, ‘1809678 Reading as a Writer ’). All work is due at midday.
Marking Criteria
Please refer to the PGT Handbook for the marking criteria for essays and the dissertation, and important regulations on the style and formatting of written work.
Word Limits
Word limits are there for a reason, so please adhere to them. Work which exceeds the upper word limit set will be penalised. Please do not exceed the word count – precise details of penalties can be found in the PGT Handbook.
Stepped Marking
The essay submitted for summative assessment in the summer term will be graded by using a set of marks with the pattern X2, X5 or X8. This means that a piece of work awarded Merit would be awarded 62%, 65% or 68%. This approach, which is called stepped marking, has been found to help in better aligning grades with marking criteria and for providing greater clarity to students about the standard of their work and how close they are to lower and upper grade boundaries. For example, a 62% represents a low Merit, while a 68% indicates a high Merit.
Teaching: Spring, 1.5 hours per week
Assessment: one essay of 3000-4000 words
Your workshop for your chosen pathway and Reading as a Writer seminar will usually be taught on the same day. See timetable here for times and locations:
https://webtimetables.royalholloway.ac.uk/SWS/SDB1920SWS/Login.aspx
Part Time students will take Reading as a Writer in their second year.
Reading lists will be confirmed in the second half of the Autumn term and visible here:
https://rhul.rl.talis.com/modules/en5116.html
Tutorials and supervisions are by arrangement.
KEY TEACHING STAFF:
Fiction
Dr Eley Williams: Eley.Williams@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Anna Whitwham Anna.Whitwham@rhul.ac.uk
Ms Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa.Mohamed@rhul.ac.uk
Literary Non-Fiction
Dr Sean Borodale: Sean.Borodale@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Lavinia Greenlaw: Lavinia.Greenlaw@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Eley Williams: Eley.Williams@rhul.ac.uk
Poetry
Dr Sean Borodale: Sean.Borodale@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Lavinia Greenlaw: Lavinia.Greenlaw@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Eley Williams: Eley.Williams@rhul.ac.uk
Poetic Practice
Professor Redell Olsen: Redell.Olsen@rhul.ac.uk
Assessment (20 credits)
An essay of 3,000 – 4,000 words for Reading as a Writer will be submitted for feedback at the beginning of the Summer Term.
Deadlines for assessments will be released to students at the start of the year, and will be reflected on the online turnitin submission boxes on the relevant Moodle pages.
Students should submit all written work online via the Turnitin box at the top of the Reading as a Writer Introduction on the Reading as a Writer home page. All work submitted on Turnitin should be anonymous and submitted by candidate number only.
You should make your candidate number the title of the submission, along with the name of your workshop tutor and confirmation of which course you are submitting work for (eg, ‘1809678 Reading as a Writer ’). All work is due at midday.
Marking Criteria
Please refer to the PGT Handbook for the marking criteria for essays and the dissertation, and important regulations on the style and formatting of written work.
Word Limits
Word limits are there for a reason, so please adhere to them. Work which exceeds the upper word limit set will be penalised. Please do not exceed the word count – precise details of penalties can be found in the PGT Handbook.
Stepped Marking
The essay submitted for summative assessment in the summer term will be graded by using a set of marks with the pattern X2, X5 or X8. This means that a piece of work awarded Merit would be awarded 62%, 65% or 68%. This approach, which is called stepped marking, has been found to help in better aligning grades with marking criteria and for providing greater clarity to students about the standard of their work and how close they are to lower and upper grade boundaries. For example, a 62% represents a low Merit, while a 68% indicates a high Merit.