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2022 unit information
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Last updated: 4 March 2022
This unit is only available to students enrolled in a Faculty of Arts and Education course or D311, D312, D313, D326, D330, D370, D385 or D391
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ALW321, ALW326, ALW393
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 2-hour seminar per week
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar or equivalent
The unit focuses on applications of editorial roles and functions to a digital publication process. Students will have the opportunity to develop a themed group anthology, including selecting and editing content; negotiating with a writer; structuring, designing and preparing initial marketing for a publication and its specified readership; and applying legal principles to publication decisions. At the end of the unit, students will demonstrate skills in structural/content/copy editing with writers, working with a small group to edit and publish a digital anthology, and individually presenting their evaluation of the process in relation to the writing/publishing industry.
Identify, apply and redraft advanced techniques in structural, content and copy editing to negotiations with author/s as related to Australian editing industry standards
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Negotiate effectively with authors, editors and others in the publication process
GLO2: Communication
Read and edit critically and self-critically
GLO4: Critical thinking
Understand, analyse and apply research and preparatory processes to editing fiction/nonfiction
GLO5: Problem solving
Demonstrate a capacity to adapt to the regulatory environment that affects publishing practices
GLO6: Self-management
Undertake self-directed and collaborative tasks
GLO7: Teamwork
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ALW396 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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