2016_17
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
A A 
english 
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009)
 Subjects
  ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS II
   Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Assignments
A5
A6
B1
An assignment will consist of a 600-word analysis of a short text, specified by the tutors. The analysis, which, at least in the early stages of the course, will follow clear guidelines, will allow students to apply the relevant theory to a text. In later stages of the course, the structure will be more guided, rather than specific. An acceptable level of language accuracy is a prerequisite for an assignment to be evaluated. By "acceptable level" is meant the complete absence of simple errors belonging to the categories listed on a document that will be made available on the first day of class. Students will have only one opportunity to rectify language errors in an assignment in the course. Students will write these assignments, at home. 70%
Others  

Students will take two tests on the Theory component of the course. These will consist of short questions on the range of theory on poetry, narrative, drama and film expounded in class. Each test will be a maximum of one hour, and each test will be 15% of the overall course score for Continuous Assessment

30%
 
Other comments and second exam session

1. In the WAs, students must present work appropriately formatted, with correct quotation and reference, and a properly presented Bibliography. When a Style Sheet document is provided on Moodle stipulating the correct forms these elements must take, failure to comply with these stipulations will result in a WA not being evaluated.

2. Basic language errors are to be avoided at all times in students' writing. The categories of what are considered Basic Language Errors are set out in a document on Moodle. In a WA, if a student makes three or more errors from these categories, marks will be deducted, 1 point for every three basic errors. For work written in class, the PRs, marks will not be deducted for language errors. However, in both in the WAs and PRs students must provide correction and appropriate linguistic explanations for all their errors in each piece of work. These must be submitted to the teacher within a week after the work has been returned. If a student is not in class to collect their work, it is their responsibility to collect their work from the teacher's office, during office hours or by agreement. If the language errors are not corrected by the student, to a level which implies the student still does not understand the error that has been made, by the end of the teaching period, then the piece of work, WA or PR, will NOT be evaluated.

3. Any instance of plagiarism, copying a text or ANY PART OF A TEXT from another source without proper reference or citation, so that effectively the work of another person is presented as the student's own, or as any part of it, will result in the piece of work in which the instance occurs being evaluated as a '0'. This will lead to failure of the Continuous Assessment component of the course.

4. Students must submit ALL the WAs and PRs and do the two Tests in order to be eligible for a mark in the Continuous Assessment (CA) system of the course. If a student does not submit any WA or PR or misses any test, even if their overall CA score calculated with the missing mark(s) is above a 5, they will not be pass the Continuous Assessment part of the course, and must pass the Final Exam.

5. A student must score a minimum of 30% of the pass mark for EACH element in the CA, in each one of the 4 WAs, the 3 PRs and the 2 Tests, to be able pass the course on the basis of the Continuous Assessment.

6. Unless, the teacher enters into a specific agreement with the class, or group, to the contrary, any work to be submitted must be uploaded to the appropriate place on Moodle before the deadlines, as stipulated in the Pla de Treball, and in the Calendar on Moodle, or the Rough Timetable document offered by the teacher on Moodle. If a student has difficulty in submitting work through Moodle, and they choose to send it via an email to the teacher or submit it through the consergeria, it is their responsibility to make sure that the piece of work is evaluated and returned to them at the same time equivalent work is returned to their classmates. Where Moodle is the agreed channel for submission, the teacher will not accept responsibility for any work that is not submitted through Moodle, and is under no obligation to evaluate it, unless the teachers expressly agrees to accept the student's work, in writing.

7. Segona Convocatòria Exam contents. There will be 20-25 questions of the sort used in the two theory tests, Multiple choice questions, True or False, and Short answers of a word or two, or a short paragraph. The questions will be based on the powerpoints used in the theory part of the course, although some examples will come from the course text book, Ways of Reading. This should take about 30-40 minutes to complete.

Then there will be a poem to analyse, in which your answer should explain both the form of the poem (rhyme, rhythm, stanza shape) and its contents, and how these two elements interract to create the 'meanings' of the poem. Finally there will be essays questions on the narrative text, the drama text, and the film text, similar to the ones you were asked in the Practicals and in the WAs.