Objectives
Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
Demonstrate their ability to examine issues of historiography and method through a critical reading of selected Australian historians.
Analyse some of the key elements of historical prose, such as story-telling, beginnings and endings, transitions, scene-setting, characterisation, placing oneself in the text, addressing different readerships, documentation and the onus of proof, irony and indirection, the use of different voices and tropes, formal and colloquial prose.
Demonstrate a high level of development of practical skills in reading and writing historical prose.
