Oral Story Presentation: 20%
Seminar or tutorial presentation; Learning Outcome 4

Portfolio of writing, 80%
This will include one or two short pieces of literary analysis [1,000 words] and a longer piece of prose, verse or dialogue [1,500 words]; Learning Outcomes 1,2,3

Peter Ellison: Essential Fiction Genres (Folens Publishers 2003)
Robert McKee: Story (Methuen 1998)
Stephen King: On Writing (New English Library 2001)

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

There will be a programme of ten two-hour 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.

This module will build on the essential elements of form, in prose, poetry and drama introduced at Level 4. This module aims to give you further experience in both reading and writing literature, the programme will include examples of different genres in 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 5 will be on experimentation, in this module you will be given the chance to adopt different genres and types of plots based on myths and real-life situations. You will also have the opportunity in this module to write a more extensive piece, in the 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 own work.

Examples of texts, which may be varied:
Christopher Booker: The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum Publishers 2006)
Patricia Highsmith: Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (St Martin's Press, 2001)
Thomas Milhorn: Writing Genre Fiction (Universal Publishers 2006)
Sue Grifton: Writing Mysteries (Writers Digest Books 2002)

1. DEMONSTRATE A CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF GENRE WRITING
[Knowledge & Understanding]

2. CRITICALLY ANALYSE DIFFERENT FORMS OF GENRE
[Analysis]

3. WRITE A SUBSTANTIAL, COHERENT PIECE OF PROSE, VERSE OR DRAMATIC DIALOGUE
[Communication]

4. EVALUATE THEIR OWN AND OTHERS' WORK WITH SOME CONCEPTUAL AND CRITICAL INSIGHT
[Reflection]