Dr Sophie Marnette, Balliol College
WHAT TO DO FOR YOUR TUTORIALS
Organising for Tutorials
Please make sure that your college tutor
contacts the Medieval French team before the term begins. Our teaching is
organized centrally and we will be in touch with you
to explain how the papers work, how you can prepare, and where you can find
information (list of essay topics and suggested readings are available on
Canvas).
If you are in your second year, you can
either choose to have 4 tutorials this year and 4 tutorials in your final year.
Or you can take 8 tutorials during your second year, with one or two revisions
sessions in your final year
If you are in your final year and need 8
tutorials, it is better if they take place every fortnight during two terms.
Extra revision tutorials will be available in Trinity Term.
Handing the essay in
For medieval literature tutorials, I
typically ask students to read or summarise their
essays during tutorials. Please bring me one copy so that I can follow the
reading. I will keep it, correct it and hand it back
later with comments on the style and structure of the essay. Comments on the
content take place during tutorials.
Tutorial
We will meet in my office, 3.11 Balliol
College.
Make sure to "prepare" for
your supervision:
Keep at least one extra copy of your
essay and bring it with you for the supervision.
Re-read your essay before the
supervision and be ready to give a short oral summary of what you wrote.
References : where to find them
and how to use them
On canvas, you will find
specific reading lists for each medieval literature topic, with suggested essay
titles at the end. You must read more than one of the works recommended
and you should indicate which works you have used in a bibliography, at the end
of your essay.
Several of the references given on
canvas are to articles available for downloading (see “Online Article
Collection”).
Do read books too! They will often give
you a broader view of the topic, which - while not always immediately relevant
for the specific essay title you picked - will help you with your global
understanding of the topic for the exam.
Although making photocopies or printing scanned
articles is undoubtedly expensive, it might be very beneficial in the long run,
especially if you are in your second year and need to revise all these topics
in two years from now... Then you might have forgotten almost everything...
except if you have good handouts and notes from lectures, corrected essays
(re-read and annotated after the tutorial) and specific articles, books
chapters on hand because by then you might have no time to go to the library
...
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