On this deadline in Week 7 you must submit:
– evidence of significant advance (1000 words equivalent) towards your project final product presented in a form appropriate to the stage of development, plus
– a 500-word exegesis (a statement commenting on your practical and theoretical processes and intentions – see Guidelines below)
GUIDELINES FOR EXEGESES AND SEMINAR/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
In this course you are asked to write exegeses in support of your creative project submissions. Your seminar presentation is an exegetical exercise too. It will be assessed on its exegetical value.
In providing an exegesis, a practitioner gives an account of the thinking behind a creative work, and may also state a rationale for the work. The exegesis is the practitioner’s own critique of the practice and theory that has gone into the work, and is the practitioner’s setting of the work into the cultural context as the practitioner sees it, or has researched it.
An exegesis is valuable when it thoughtfully and perceptively contextualises the practitioner’s creative work.
Contexts pertinent to the making of a creative work include:
the cultural context – issues relevant to the culture’s current shape and future development, e.g. how people think about certain ideas, ideals, others, themselves, public institutions, private perceptions, etc, etc. The cultural context includes the other contexts listed below;
the theoretical context – academic theories and discourses that might help the work develop or provide standpoints for critique of the work, e.g. postmodern theory, gender theory, perception theory, narratology theory, or even (as low-grade theory) how-to-do-it books, etc;
the historical context – ideas or creative products generated in the past but relevant to the creation of the present work;
the genre and industry contexts – what’s going on elsewhere in the genre or in other artform areas relevant to the product; what’s happening in relevant arts industries in terms of trends, focuses, standards, controversies, technological developments, etc;
the personal context – the practitioner’s own development, perceptions, theorising that establishes a subjective foundation of thinking for one’s practice.
An exegesis should include detailed reference to one or a number of the above contexts. Typical ways of writing an exegesis include quoting from, and making an argument based on, primary and secondary source texts related to the above contexts, alongside your own considered viewpoint as practitioner.
MANUSCRIPT PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
For best results in terms of presentation, manuscripts submitted to publishers, magazines or competitions should comply with the following:
§ be word processed );
§ be free of grammatical, spelling and typographical errors;
§ be introduced by a title page showing title of work, and name, address, email and phone/fax number of writer;
§ be double-spaced;
§ if printed, be on one side of the page only;
§ utilize a clear, simple 12 pt font, e.g. Ariel or Times New Roman (unless, of course, something special and interesting is being done with fonts);
§ be set out with generous margins (2.5cm) on both left and right sides;
§ have numbered pages (extremely important for editing reference purposes);
§ have the writer’s name on each page (and if more than one MS submitted, have title on each page too) – this can be done as a header or footer;
§ comply with the appropriate presentational guidelines if such are given by a competition, magazine, etc;
§ be simply presented without distracting flourishes;
WITH RESPECT TO EXPERIMENTAL WRITING SUBMISSIONS THIS SEMESTER, CONVENTIONAL ELEMENTS OF MANUSCRIPTS MUST COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE. OTHER, MORE RADICAL FORMS OF PRESENTATION, MAY BE REQUIRED FOR SOME SUBMISSIONS.
Criteria & Marking:
Criteria based on:
– quality of writing and ideas, including especially innovation and sophistication of critical response in relation to course content and standards of publishability in a work-in-progress draft.
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