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.

Library
Internet
The blackboard virtual learning environment (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

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

A PORTFOLIO weighted at 80%.
Portfolio to a total of 2500 words that includes a learning diary component that demonstrates creative process, editing, and workshop activity. The creative component of the portfolio will include pieces of original creative writing in each of the forms studied in the module. [1, 2, 3, 5]

Oral Presentation 20%
The presentation consists of a demonstration of a practical technique in literature in the form of an exercise designed by the student. 10 minutes.
[Learning Outcomes 4, 6]

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