This module will enable you to produce an extensive piece of creative writing. Students will be involved in group workshops throughout the year, which will enable you to read your own work to others in the group, and hear, read and comment on the work of other students. This module emphasises the relationship between reading contemporary writing and original critical practice. Students will be supervised to establish and complete a creative project.

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

Lodge, David, The Art of Fiction, Penguin, 1992
Strunk, W and White, E.B., The Elements of Style, Collier Macmillan, 1979
Brande, Dorothea, Becoming a Writer, Houghton Mifflin, 1981

A series of group workshops in the first part of the module will help stimulate ideas and offer guidance in matters of design and structure, and will provide opportunities for students to present their work. These meetings will also be occasions for discussing first drafts of projects, and providing feedback on first drafts (early in semester 2). Each student will have a supervisor from Creative Writing to provide individual support and guidance, providing supervision, in particular, with drafting and re-drafting.

Key Information Set Data:
8% scheduled learning and teaching activities
92% guided independent learning

Teaching Block 1:
30% WORKBOOK
a) reading list of texts researched [Learning Outcome 4]
b) critical review of a text from the literature survey [Learning Outcomes 1,3]

Teaching Block 2:
70% PORTFOLIO (final work)
a) contextualizing reflective essay [Learning Outcomes 4, 7]
b) completed, original creative work(s) [Learning Outcomes 5 - 7] [4,000]

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework