Teaching Block 1:
PORTFOLIO 40%
Story, Travel Writing, Psychogeographcal Writing [1,500 words] (Learning Outcomes 3, 4)
Learning Diary [1000 words] (Leaming Outcomes 1, 2)- 40%

Teaching Block 2:
PRESENTATION 20% comprising of:
A 15 minute delivery of an original exercise to the class and a lesson plan of presentation with research notes [Learning Outcome 5]

PORTFOLIO 40% of original Creative Writing that contains :
Either a Character Study, Memoir, Autoethnographical Writing or Monologue
[I,500 words]

This module explores the themes of identity and place in creative writing. In semester 1, the focus will be on writing and place, which will include reading and writing about setting, travel, atmosphere and mood. Semester 2 will be about different aspect of identity in writing: the identity of the writer, representing other identities in text and the identity of the reader, and what influences writing. During the module, we will document and reflect on our creative process, ideas about place, writing identities via workshops, notebooks and journals.

This module consists of craft lectures, manuscript workshops and editorial tutorials. One of the principles underlying this module is the belief that the practice of writing can be assisted by knowledge and understanding of literature, so, the process of critical analysis in other lecture and seminar programmes will complement the writing, reading and evaluating of student work in the workshop sessions here. Essential to the text-based workshops classes, for example, will be some consideration of literary form and style, the study of some cutting edge contemporary writers such as Mary Gaitskill and Michel Faber.

Networked PC
DVD/Video Projection
Library
Internet

Barthes, R., 1993 [1977]. The Death of the Author. In: Image Music Text. Waukegan, IL: Fontana Press. OR Barthes, R., 2010. Death of the Author. [Online] Available at: http://www.deathoftheanthor.com/
[Accessed 6th July 2015].

Gaitskill, M., 1999. The Wolf in the Tall Grass. In: W. Blythe, ed. Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of
Fiction. London: Little, Brown & Company

Horace, 2009. Ars Poetica. [Online]
Available at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/1earning/essay/237830?page=4 [Accessed 6'h July 2015]

J. Rothenberg & P. loris., 1999. Poems for the Millennium. Vol. 1. Berkely, CA: University of California
Press.

Kafka, F., 2009 [1915]. The Metamorphosis. In: I. J. (Trans), ed. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories. Eastford, CT: Martino Fine Books. OR Kafka, F., 2012. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis. [Online]
Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/5200-h/5200-h.htm
[Accessed 6th July 2015].

Mallarme, S., 1992 [1899]. Ses Purs Ongles. In: Poesies. Paris: Editions Gallimard, p. 59. OR Mallarme, S., 2009. Ses purs angles tres-haut .... [Online]
Available at: http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassigues/poemes/stephane mallarme/ses purs ongles tres haut.html
[Accessed 6th July 2015].

1. DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF WRITING WHICH CONCERN THE ROLE OF IDENTITY AND PLACE IN CREATIVE WRTING (E.G. POETRY, THE SHORT STORY)
[Knowledge and Understanding

2. INTERPRET AND DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT FORMS OF WRITING USING A RANGE OF RELEVANT LITERARY-CRITICAL THINKING TO INITIATE AND UNDERTAKE CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERARY TEXTS
[Analysis; Learning]

3. COMMUNICATE A COHERENT ARGUMENT IN ORAL AND WRITTEN FORM
[Communication]

4. CREATE A PORTFOLIO OF ORIGINAL CREATIVE WORK THAT REFLECTS THE TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICES STUDIED IN THE MODULE
[Application]

5. DEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO REFLECT CRITICALLY ON WRITTEN WORK AND REFLECT UPON CREATIVE PROCESS
[Reflection]