Assessment

Assessment Information :

There are three elements to the assessment for the award of the degree:

Weighting of Assessed Elements:

1) Substantial portfolio of creative work written during the year, which may take the form of a selection of short stories, a collection of poetry, play, script or novel = 60% (25 ECTS). The work in the portfolio should not be published prior to Examination Board Meeting.

2) Essay in The Author, the Book and the Marketplace = 20% (15 ECTS)

3) Writer Fellow specialist workshop taken in Hilary Term = 20% (10 ECTS)

The Master in Philosophy degree is awarded on a Distinction*/Pass/Fail basis.

*An M.Phil with Distinction may be awarded to students who achieve a mark in their portfolio of 70% or higher, having satisfactorily completed all the other elements of the course and having achieved an overall average mark of 68%

The weighting for European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is 90.

European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)
Portfolio = 25
Workshop GD = 20
Workshop CG/DM = 20
JW Course = 15
Irish Writer Fellow Workshop = 10

Presentation of Portfolios 2 copies should be presented.The following declaration, signed and dated, must be included in each copy:

'I declare that the work in this portfolio is entirely my original work. It has not been submitted for any other course in this or in any other academic institution. I also agree that this manuscript may be borrowed or copied through the library of Trinity College Dublin with prior permission.'