English Literature corrections page

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Change the top sentence in the banner to the following.

Experience literature in English from different cultures and different times. Learn to analyse and interpret stories, plays, and poems.  Develop your communication skills.

Under the New Zealand Literature Study Options please remove the following line from under Postgraduate Programmes

New Zealand Literature is only available at postgraduate level.

Under the New Zealand Literature Study Options please replace the content with the following:

Study New Zealand's literary history and learn about the way we imagine ourselves as a nation.

In this postgraduate level topic you'll choose to focus on a subject in New Zealand literature. You might look at the importance of New Zealand places in a specific genre, or study a forgotten work of local literature.

Please change second sentence under "Skills for Life" to:

The ability to read and write with sophistication is not only personally fulfilling; it’s of value in almost any professional field. (note semicolon).

Change para under "Learn from the best" to:

"Learn from highly qualified and engaged lecturers who are recognised internationally for their research. They publish on living writers. They also work on famous writers of the past—writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, S. T. Coleridge, and Katherine Mansfield. They work, too, on interesting works that are less well-known, such as the poetry written by Shakespeare’s female contemporaries."

Under NZ Literature

Delete 'that'

Study New Zealand's literary history and learn about the way that we imagine ourselves as a nation.

Under English Literature

Take advantage of the flexibility Victoria offers to follow your own interests - choose to focus

Please make this a proper em-dash i.e interests—choose

I'm sorry, I've made a mistake! Please change para under "Learn from the best" to:

"Learn from highly qualified and engaged lecturers who are recognised internationally for their research. They publish on living writers and work on famous writers of the past, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, S. T. Coleridge, and Katherine Mansfield.  They also look at interesting works that are less well-known, like the poetry written by Shakespeare’s female contemporaries."

 Missing images of Alistair Murray

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Please change first paragraph under quote beginning "Literature in English" to:

"Literature in English comes from many different countries.  Its history extends from the Middle Ages into the present. It is a window into a range of cultures and histories, including our own." 

Change para under "Learn from the best" to:

"They publish on living writers and work on famous writers of the past, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, S. T. Coleridge, and Katherine Mansfield.  They also look at interesting works that are less well-known, like the poetry written by Shakespeare’s female contemporaries."

Under Why Wellington please change second sentence to read:

Wellington is also the home of some of the country's most important libraries and archives. Take advantage of Victoria's close relationship with institutions like the National Library and /Archives New Zealand.