The Portfolio to total 2500 words

Oral: 20%
Seminar or tutorial presentation [Learning Outcome 4]

Portfolio of writing, 80 %
This will include one or two short pieces of literary analysis, and a longer piece of prose, verse or dialogue at 1000-1200 words [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3]

This module will build on the essential elements of form, in prose, poetry and drama introduced at Level 1. This module aims to give you further experience in both reading and writing literature; the programme will include examples of different forms of literature - you will be given the opportunity both to study examples of different kinds of writing and to try them out yourselves. The emphasis at Level 2 will be on experimentation; in this module you will be given the chance to adopt different 'voices' - for example in a simple dramatic monologue (having given some time to a study of Browning's 'My Last Duchess'), or a piece of prose, following an analysis of The Catcher in the Rye. You will also have the opportunity in this module to write a more extensive piece, in a genre or form of your choosing. The selected texts will be studied by means of a programme of workshops and tutorials, and further tutorial time will be provided to support individual students' writing. Some workshop time will be devoted to the discussion and critical analysis by students of their work.

Examples of texts, which may be varied:
Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Hemingway: Short Stories
Beckett: End-Game
Eminem: Lyrics from Stan; Slim Shady

Library
Internet

There will be a programme of workshops and tutorials related to the literary texts, with further individual tutorials to support your own more personal writing. 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 the programme of workshops will accompany the writing, reading and evaluating of student work in the sessions evaluating more creative work. There will be some consideration of literary form, as an aid to students' own writing.

Stott, R and Avery, S. Writing with Style (Speak-Write Series), Longman, 2000
Hughes, Ted: Poetry in the Making Faber and Faber, 1967
Lodge, David: Language of Fiction. Penguin, 1966
Lodge, David: Working with Structuralism. Ark, 1981