Teaching Block 1:
30% PRESENTATION
a) 15 minute delivery of an original exercise to the class (Learning Outcomes 5, 6)
b)lesson plan of presentation with research notes (Learning Outcome 6)

Teaching Block 2:
70% (Final Piece) Portfolio of Creative Writing that contains:
a) Original, Completed Creative Work [2,500 words] (Learning Outcomes 3, 4)
b) Learning Diary [1,000 words] (Learning Outcomes 1,2)

Key Information Set Data:
30% Practical Exam
70% Coursework

There will be a programme of workshops and tutorials related to the literary texts, with further individual tutorials to support the students' 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 and its movements (Modernism, Imagism, etc) so, the process of critical analysis in the programme of workshops will accompany the writing, reading and evaluating of student work. Students will write manifestoes and study concepts such as Barthes' `Death of the Author'

Key Information Set Data:
20% Scheduled Teaching and Learning Activities
80% Guided Independent Learning

This module will build on the essential elements of form, in prose, poetry and drama introduced at Level 4. This module aims to give students a more challenging experience in both reading and writing literature; the programme will include a wide variety of forms of literature - students will study diverse types of writing and try them out themselves. The emphasis at Level 5 will be on innovation and experimentation. In this module students will be given the chance to adopt different writing styles and types of 'voice' - for example, by analysing Naboko's stylish and infamous novel, Lolita. Students will also have the opportunity to write a more extensive piece, in a genre or form of their 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.

Library, Internet. The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details supplied in module handbook. Networked PC DVD/Video Projection.

Barthes, `Death of the Author' in Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (NY: Norton, 2001)
Andre Breton, `Manifesto for Surrealism' in Poems for the Millennium vol 1 . (U of California P, 1995)
Cormac McCarthy. The Road. (Picador, 2006).