School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Writing and Editing
  • Unit Code

    WRT3114
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ffion Mary MURPHY

Description

This unit helps students to develop professional skills in writing, editing and proofreading. Students study elements of grammar and style, as well as approaches to revision, by completing a range of in-class exercises, including peer editing and manuscript appraisal. Students practise writing for a specific publication, taking account of content and genre requirements, house style, and submission guidelines. The unit also develops students' awareness of some social, cultural, legal, and ethical issues relevant to writing, editing, and publishing.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded WRT3111, WRT4114, WRT4116

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of professional editing practice and legal, ethical and inter-cultural issues.
  2. Edit publications such as short stories, reports and essays.
  3. Edit their own and other students' texts.
  4. Generate work that meets professional submission standards.
  5. Identify editing and publishing issues relevant to Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders.
  6. Use advanced style guides and other professional editing resources.

Unit Content

  1. Editing and proofreading tasks.
  2. Grammar, punctuation, and style exercises.
  3. Practical, cultural, legal and ethical matters, including intercultural and international issues for editors and writers.
  4. Preparation of a text for submission to a publisher.
  5. Research and oral presentations relevant to professional editing and writing.
  6. Use of advanced style guides and other professional editing resources.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-Campus: Seminars. Research, textual analysis, writing, and editing exercises. Tests of proficiency. Student presentations (lecture format). Specified readings. Off-Campus: The unit will be delivered via Blackboard. Regular online access is necessary.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioResearch, writing and editing exercises70%
ExaminationExamination30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioResearch, writing and editing exercises70%
ExaminationExamination30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Writing and Editing
  • Unit Code

    WRT3114
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ffion Mary MURPHY

Description

This unit helps students to develop professional skills in writing, editing and proofreading. Students study elements of grammar and style, as well as approaches to revision, by completing a range of in-class exercises, including peer editing and manuscript appraisal. Students practise writing for a specific publication, taking account of content and genre requirements, house style, and submission guidelines. The unit also develops students' awareness of some social, cultural, legal, and ethical issues relevant to writing, editing, and publishing.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded WRT3111, WRT4114, WRT4116

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of professional editing practice and legal, ethical and inter-cultural issues.
  2. Edit publications such as short stories, reports and essays.
  3. Edit their own and other students' texts.
  4. Generate work that meets professional submission standards.
  5. Identify editing and publishing issues relevant to Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders.
  6. Use advanced style guides and other professional editing resources.

Unit Content

  1. Editing and proofreading tasks.
  2. Grammar, punctuation, and style exercises.
  3. Practical, cultural, legal and ethical matters, including intercultural and international issues for editors and writers.
  4. Preparation of a text for submission to a publisher.
  5. Research and oral presentations relevant to professional editing and writing.
  6. Use of advanced style guides and other professional editing resources.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-Campus: Seminars. Research, textual analysis, writing, and editing exercises. Tests of proficiency. Student presentations (lecture format). Specified readings. Off-Campus: The unit will be delivered via Blackboard. Regular online access is necessary.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioResearch, writing and editing exercises70%
ExaminationExamination30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioResearch, writing and editing exercises70%
ExaminationExamination30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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