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4. Essay
Due: 11pm Sunday 14th May 2017 (Week 10).
Length: 1200 - 1500 words
This exercise is worth 35% of your overall grade
In writing your essay you should try to take into account your tutor’s advice on your
original essay plan.
Your essay should draw upon at least five scholarly sources. For this essay you are
not to cite either lecture notes or work completed in your tutorials. At least two of
these sources need to be chosen from the set course readings and the supplied
sources. You may reuse those that you selected for your essay plan.
The readings will be available through Moodle, the UOW Library Catalogue or
through Google Scholar. You may also use the weekly readings.
Note that this is not a research essay, so you are not expected to use sources other
than those provided. However you may, if you wish, use independently located
sources provided that at least 2 sources are drawn from the set list. Should you
require factual/statistical information then it will be acceptable to cite the Australian
Bureau of Statistics but this should be in addition to your 5 reference texts. Any other
source material should be checked with your tutor and will require a very good
reason for inclusion.
Use of unauthorised material will incur a penalty.
The main criterion for a good essay is that it presents a succinct and accurate
exposition of an argument, and a well-argued critical response to the essay question.
See Appendix A for the essay question.
See Appendix B for the list of source material.UAP 020 Australian Studies Autumn
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Essay Submission
Essay submission is online. Please take care when submitting that you upload the correct
file. Any claim to have submitted the wrong file by accident or that you thought that you
submitted but it isn’t there 2 days later or other sorts of issues will not be accepted.
After submission, check your emails to ensure that you have submitted correctly and that
Moodle has acknowledged your submission.
Should you be unable to upload your essay then you need to immediately email your
tutor explaining the exact nature of the problem and attach your essay as an attachment.
You should then submit you essay into Moodle within the next 24 hours. If you do not follow
this procedure then you will be penalised for late submission.
Essays must be submitted in word format. Essays submitted in other formats will be
accepted (provided the document can be opened) but will be penalised 5% for not following
instructions.UAP 020 Australian Studies Autumn
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Essay Marking Criteria
85 - 100%
75 - 84%
65 - 74%
50 - 64%
0 - 49%
HD D C P F
Written Expression
20
Quality of writing- clear, flows well, ideas are expressed logically
Grammatically correct- limited errors, no spelling mistakes
Argument and Structure
40
Clear thesis with good supporting arguments in the introduction
Logical development of subsequent paragraphs
Explanation and evidence support topic sentence in the body paragraphs
Conceptual understandings are clear
Exposition and Referencing
40
Interpretation and use of source materials
Clear sense that the exposition is in the author’s own voice not just a rephrasing
of the text
Quality of independent research – paragraphs draw on several sources and/or
source information is combined well.
What should be referenced is referenced, and in text citations are in the correct
Harvard format
Reference list is accurate, complete, in alphabetical order and formatted correctly
in Harvard style
Mark before deductions: %
DEDUCTIONS MARKS
DEDUCTED
Fewer than the prescribed minimum number of academic sources used and referenced in the essay or non-academic
source material used: 2 marks for each source (maximum deduction: 10 marks)
Word limit: 10% of the preliminary mark may be deducted if the essay is more than 10% above or below the prescribed
word limit
Late submission: 10% of the preliminary mark per day for the first three days; after three days no mark will be awarded
TOTAL MARKS DEDUCTED:
FINAL MARK: %
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Marking Guidelines
UOW College best practice is that students can normally expect to have results and
feedback to assessment tasks within two weeks and before the next assessment task is due.
On occasion there may be exceptions to this time frame due to, for example; the size of the
task, the size of the class, teacher illness or teacher leave.
Where there are several teachers marking a major assessment task, tasks will be handed
back by all the teachers within the same week.UAP 020 Australian Studies Autumn
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Appendix A
Essay Topics
Select One of the following Australian Commercials and analyse the clip,
identifying the role of specific Australian stereotypes and/or Australian
histories that the advertisement uses in its construction.
a. Bushells Australian Tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeR7hzfoTqM
b. Australian Tourism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dukhch8u0&index=2&list=P
LxQLsUWr0FzRbUT3XujD3aW2YYii2EdSg
c. Carlton Draught Beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnNX8SsKF18
d. Lamb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8aBlYQGfw&list=PLzYzPiD
Dl7pB4cuGvE_5IfkeqbmJE5aKK
Your analysis should include an account of the possible purpose behind using
that particular stereotype, what it assumes about Australia, what or who is
excluded from the stereotype or the history as it is drawn on and the possible
implications of understanding Australia in this way.UAP 020 Australian Studies Autumn
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Appendix B
List of Sources
Note: these references may or may not be in correct Harvard format and may or
may not have listed the exact information that you need – you need to check
this – do not simply cut and paste these references.
• Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. (Benedict Richard O'Gorman), ‘Introduction:
Concepts and definitions’. London-New York: Verso, 1991 [1983] pp
• Bellanta, M 2012, 'Introduction: the true blue Aussie larrikin', in Larrikins : A
History, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld., pp
• Crotty, Martin, ‘The limits of manliness’ Australian humanities review. Vol. 22,
June, 2001. La Trobe University
• Elder, C 2007, 'Imagining nations: telling national tales', in Being Australian:
Narratives of National Identity, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, pp23-3
• Flanagan, R 2008, 'The lost larrikin', Bulletin: With Newsweek, Australian
Consolidated Press, vol.126, no.6705, pp28-31.
• Goodall, H., et al. (1994) 'Dreaming up the nation', in Jakubowicz, A. (ed.),
Racism, Ethnicity and the Media, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards: 53-56.
• Keneally, T 2008, 'Advance Australia, fair?', Bulletin: With Newsweek, vol.126,
no.6705, pp32-35.
• ‘The blonde Aussie mum, the Aussie family and the Aussie nation: television
ads’ by Heather Goodall in Jakubowicz, Andrew – Racism, ethnicity and the
media. St Leonards NSW, Allen & Unwin 1994. pp 74-78.
• Hage, G. (1998) 'Good white nationalists: the tolerant society as a white
fantasy, in White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural
Society, Pluto Press,
• Harper, M & White, R 2010, 'Land of symbols', in Symbols of Australia, UNSW
Press, Sydney, pp1Sydney, pp78-104, 254-256.
• Leone Huntsman, ‘The Concept of ‘national identity’ in Sand in our souls: the
beach in Australian history. Carlton South, Vic. Melbourne University Press.
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• Lake, M. (1986) 'Historical reconsiderations IV: The politics of respectability:
identifying the masculinist context', Historical Studies, 22(86): 116-131.
• Lohrey, A. (1994) 'Australia Day, 1994', in Papaellinas, G. (ed.), All Same as
Family in a Big 'ouse, Angus and Robertson, Sydney: 64-85.
• Teaching History Volume 42 Issue 1 (Mar 2008) ‘Imagination and History’ by
McKenna, Mark
• THE ANZAC MYTH By MARK McKENNA - Patriot act - THE ANZAC MYTH -
Parts 1 and 2: [5 Australian Literary Review Edition]. McKENNA, MARK. The
Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 June 2007: 1.
• Pearson, W & O'Neill, G 2009, 'Australia day: a day for all Australians?', in D
McCrone & G McPherson (eds.), National Days: Constructing and Mobilizing
National Identity, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp73-88.
• Stratton, J. (1998) 'Race, culture and national identity', Race Daze: Australia
in Identity Crisis, Pluto Press, Sydney: 105-133, 226-230.
• Walker, D & Collins, K 2008, 'Other voices, other traditions: swimming against
the mainstream in Australian history', in JV D'Cruz, B Neville, D
Goonewardene & P Darby (eds), As Others See Us: the Values Debate in
Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, Vic., pp3-14,180.
• Watson, Don. Digging: A Moral Equivalent to Anzac Day [online]. Monthly,
The, May 2008: 44-50.
• Richard White, 1981. ‘Introduction’ in Inventing Australia, images and identity
1688-1980. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest. Pp viii
• Moore, Tony. The Barry McKenzie Movies, Australian Screen Classics Series,
Currency Press/Australian Film Commission, Strawberry Hills, Sydney, 2005
• Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 51, Number 1, 2005, pp.
67-78. The Mythical Australian: Barry Humphries, Gough Whitlam and “New
Nationalism” ANNE PENDER University of New England
• ‘Performing Australianness in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie’ by Philip
Butterss in London Was Full of Rooms, ed., Tully Barnett et al. Adelaide:
Lythrum, 2006. 220-224.
• Waterhouse, Richard (2000) 'Australian Legends: Representations of the
Bush, 1813-1913', Australian Historical Studies, 31: 115, 201 — 221
• LINNELL SECOMB—INTERRUPTING MYTHIC COMMUNITY Cultural
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• Multiculturalism in crisis: The new politics of race and national identity in
Australia. I Ang, J Stratton – Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies,
1998; 2 (Spring), pp 22- 41.
• The myth of the 'Modern Nation' and the myths of nations. Authors: Smith,
Antony D. Source: Ethnic & Racial Studies. Jan1988, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p5. 22p.
• Jupp, James (1997) ‘Immigration and National Identity: Multiculturalism’ in
Geoff Stokes (ed) Politics of Identity in Australia, Cambridge, Melbourne;
Cambridge University Press, pp132- 144
• Schaffer, K ‘In search of National Identity’, Women and the Bush: Forces of
Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge: 28-51, 192-193.
• Fiona Nicoll, 2001 Chapter 3: Gender, desire and the digger in the book, From
Diggers to drag Queens. Pages 68-96. Pluto Press London.
• Fiona Nicoll, 2001 Chapter 5: Powerful Figures: national identity between truth
and rhetoric in the book, From Diggers to drag Queens. Pages 123-149.
Pluto Press London.
• Craigie, C. (1996) 'Redfern', Guwanyi: Stories of the Redfern Aboriginal
Community: An Exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, 21 December 1996 - 4
May 1997, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Glebe: 7-14.
• Catriona Elder 2007 ‘The invisible woman: gender and nation’ in Being
Australian: Narratives of National Identity Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest. 65 – 92.
• ‘Women and the Bush: Australian National Identity and Representations of the
Feminine’ by Kay Schaffer in 1989 published in the journal antipodes pages 7-
13.
• Kay Anderson ‘Thinking “Postnationally”:Dialogie across Multicultural,
Indigenous, and Settler Spaces’ Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 2000 90:2 381-391.
• Jon Stratton and Ien Ang 1994 Multicultural imagined communities: Cultural
difference and national identity in Australia and the USA. Continuum: Journal
of Media & Cultural Studies 8:2 124-158.
• National Identity and important Australians by Bruce Tranter and Jed
Donoghue in Journal of Sociology in 2014 pp1-16.UAP 020 Australian Studies Autumn
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• Dr Kevin M Dunn, Associate Professor James Forrest, professor Ian Burnley
and Ms Amy McDonald 2004 ‘Constructing Racism in Australia’ Australian
Journal of Social Issues. Vol 39. No 4. 409-430.
• ‘From Ned Kelly to Queens in the Desert: Masculinity in Australian Film’.
Social Justice: Politics, Technology and Culture for a Better World, ed. Susan
Magarey. Adelaide: Wakefield, 1998. 65-79.
• Maynard, J 2007, 'Introduction', in Fight for Liberty and Freedom: the Origins
of Australian Aboriginal Activism, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp1-
8,152.
• McPherson, B 1994, 'A colonial feminine ideal: femininity and representation',
Journal of Australian Studies, vol.18, no.42, pp5-17.
• Reekie, Gail, ‘Contesting Australia: feminism and histories of the nation’, in
Whitlock, Gillian Lea, Images of Australia : an introductory reader in Australian
studies. St Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland Press. 1992. 268 p. p 145-
155
• Reynolds, H. (1987) 'Who was in possession', Law of the Land, Penguin,
Ringwood: 7-29, 179-183.
• Rothwell, N 2008, 'End of the dream', The Weekend Australian Magazine, 6-7
December, pp16-21.
• Hirst, John. An oddity from the start: convicts and national character [online].
Monthly (Melbourne, Vic.), July 2008: 36-42. Availability:
ISSN: 1832-3421. [cited 04 Jul 11].
• Neville Meaney (2001) Britishness and Australian identity: The problem of
nationalism in Australian history and historiography , Australian Historical
Studies, 32:116, 76-90.