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hypertext.rmit
course guide hm331 hypertext theory and practice, 2001
school: School of Applied Communication
program area: Media Studies
course code: HM331
course name: Hypertext Theory and Practice
year offered: 2001
semester offered: first semester
staff: Adrian Miles
24.1.04
9925 3157
adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au
consultation times: Monday 3.00 - 4.00
online consultation times: Tuesday 11.30-12.30 (visit http://lingua.utdallas.edu.au/ log on as a guest, type @go adrian's office and you'll find me)
duration: one semester
mode: internal
credit points: 12
contact hours: Delivery of this course involves a 1 hour lecture, a 1 hour laboratory, and a 1 hour tutorial per week.
prerequisites: Not applicable
co-requisites: Not applicable
post requisites: HM332 Online Hypertext Theory and Practice
materials
All students are required to have an email account.
An account on the School server will be provided. This course relies on a particular software program, Storyspace. If you wish to install a copy of this program on their personal computers (Macintosh or Windows) copies can be made available for purchase.
resources
You will need access to the Macintosh computer labs provided by the School of Applied Communication. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have adequate access to these machines. A small lab is available in 24.1.12 for students undertaking hypermedia related courses.
description
HM331 provides an introduction to hypertext as a creative and critical practice. It covers academic and literary hypertext. You will learn some practical skills relevant to hypertext authoring, design, navigating, and structure. The course is a communications theory course and consequently an emphasis is placed on critical and theoretical thought, reading, and writing.
learning objectives: You are to develop a critical awareness of the implications of hypertext as a writing technology. Poststructural theories of discourse will be introduced and you will learn how this relates to hypertext as a form of writing and reading, and the new genres it has produced.
learning experiences
The class will use an email list. This will allow everyone to field questions, debate issues, or solve problems collectively. Teaching staff will participate in the list. Lectures will provide an introduction to theoretical concepts, laboratories will allow you to develop technical skills and put theory into practice, and tutorials will offer provide the opportunity to explore problems, questions, and issues arising from the course content.
assessment
You must complete a number of tasks to pass the course. These tasks are indicated below.
In addition to these tasks students must be active participants in the course email list. As this course has an applied component attendance at laboratories is required.
assessment tasks
- First Hypertext Essay 20%
- Second Hypertext Essay 50%
- Competency test 20%
- Participation 10%
grades
- High Distinction (80% and above)
- Distinguished by original thought, independent research, depth and clarity of arguments, and an intelligent critical engagement with the material.
- Distinction (70-79%)
- Excellent work, containing original thought and research, well structured arguments and a comprehensive grasp of the material, but marred by minor problems.
- Credit (60-69%)
- Good to very good work, displaying some original thought and research, but undermined by gaps in reasoning and argumentation, insufficient critical engagement with the material, or weaknesses in the overall arguments of the essay.
- Pass (50-59%)
- Average work, displaying a basic grasp of the set material, but with a range of more or less serious flaws, such as poor referencing, lack of evidence of independent reading and research, poor reasoning, padding, lack of argument, poor structure, and so on.
- Fail (0-49%)
- fail, or NN grades are given to inadequate work. Some reasons for failing include where there is no evidence of any attempt to cover the set readings or do any research. Plagiarism can also be grounds for failure.
reading
This course has a required text: Snyder, Ilana. Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. Copies are available in the RMIT bookshop. In addition a dossier of additional readings will be available later in the semester for purchase via the RMIT bookshop.
plagiarism
Students are reminded that cheating, whether by fabrication, falsification of data, or plagiarism, is an offence subject to University disciplinary procedures. Plagiarism in oral or written presentations is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is one's own. Plagiarism is not acceptable. The use of another person's work or ideas must be acknowledged. Failure to do so may result in charges of academic misconduct which carry a range of penalties including cancellation of results and exclusion from your course. Students are responsible for ensuring that their work is kept in a secure place. It is also a disciplinary offence for students to allow their work to be plagiarised by another student. Students should be aware of their rights and responsibilities regarding the use of copyright material.
Student essays are required to exhibit individual research, argument, and criticism. Students are expected to have opinions about the material they read and write about, and these opinions are to be informed by critical and analytical thought and reading (opinion is informed, not personal).
late work
Material that is not handed in on time will automatically be penalised at the rate of 2% per day. Work that is handed in more than two weeks late, without an extension or approved for special consideration, will not be assessed.
extensions
Extensions can only be given prior to an assessment task's hand in date. Extensions are only given on merit.
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