Teaching Block 1:
30% WORKBOOK [1,000 words]
a) reading list of texts researched [Learning Outcome 4]
b) critical review of a text from the literature survey [Learning Outcomes 1,2]

Teaching Block 2:
70% PORTFOLIO (final work)
A portfolio of completed book reviews. [2,000 words]
[Learning Outcomes 3,4,5]

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

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.

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

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.

Times Literary Supplement
London Review of Books
Anne. K. Edwards (2008) The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing. Paladin Timeless.

1. PLAN, DESIGN AND PRESENT A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF PERSONAL WRITING.
[Knowledge and Understanding]

2. APPLY TECHNICAL AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS TO PROBLEMS OF COMPOSITION AND STYLE, OF OWN AND OTHERS' WORK.
[Communication]

3. DEMONSTRATE AN INFORMED KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF KEY PRINCIPLES IN THE WRITING OF LITERATURE, INFORMED BY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DISCIPLINE.
[Knowledge and Understanding]

4. TAKE INDEPENDENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGING AND EVALUATING A WRITTEN PROJECT, DEMONSTRATING AN ABILITY TO ESTABLISH AN ORDERED METHODOLOGY, SKILLS NECESSARY TO THE PROJECT AND TO EMPLOYMENT.
[Practical Creativity; Reflection]

5. DEMONSTRATE THE ABILITY TO EDIT AND PROOF READ A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF WRITING ACCURATELY WHICH IS CRITICALLY INFORMED BY OTHER WORKS OF LITERATURE
[Application; Reflection]