Library; Internet.

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 English or Media (appropriate to the nature of the project) to provide individual support and guidance, providing help, in particular, with drafting and re-drafting.

This module will enable you to produce an extensive piece of creative writing (either a complete piece of work, or the beginnings of a longer work). You 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 process will include writing a short, constructive report on other students' first drafts). You will be helped initially to establish your own project, and provided with detailed feedback both from the workshops and from your personal supervisor, who will be a member of staff from English or Media.

1. 90% 7,500 words: A piece of original creative writing (in eg, prose fiction, verse, life-writing, stage or radio play, etc). This can be either a finished piece, or initial sections of a longer work (with outline of its potential development). (Code: 'Creative Writing Project') [ Learning Outcomes 1 to 5]

2. 10% 500 words: A 'reader's report' on another student's first draft (Code: 'Editorial Report'). [Learning Outcome 4]

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