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.

Key Information Set Data:
17% Scheduled Learning Activites
83% 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.

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.

WORK BOOK weighted at 20%
PORTFOLIO weighted at 80% (final piece)
A Work Book of preparatory work towards a major creative writing project in any one of these forms: prose fiction, poetry, screenplay, stage play or radio play. The Work Book will consist of such items as synopses, chapters, treatments, sample scenes, poems, letters to editors. 2000 words. (Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 5, 6)

A Portfolio of creative writing work in either prose fiction, poetry, screenplay, stage play or radio play, together with a critical report/reflection. 10,000 words. (Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

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
Aulier, D (1999) Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks: Bloomsbury
Taylor, R. ed. (2005) The Eisenstein Collection: Sergei Eisenstein, Calcutta: Seagull.
Edgar, David, How Plays Work: Nick Hern Books, 2009
Grove, S. & Wyatt, Stephen, So You Want To Write Radio Drama: Nick Hern books, 2013