1. PLAN, DESIGN AND PRESENT A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF PERSONAL WRITING.
Knowledge & Understanding

2. DEMONSTRATE COMMAND AND CONTROL OF STYLE AND TECHNIQUE IN A CHOSEN GENRE (POETRY, PROSE, SCRIPT, ETC).
Practical Creativity

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

4. DEMONSTRATE AN AWARENESS OF THE LIMITATIONS OF LITERARY CRITICISM THROUGH THE PROCESS OF YOUR OWN WRITING.
Enquiry

5. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGING AND EVALUATING A MAJOR CREATIVE PROJECT, DEMONSTRATING AN ABILITY TO ESTABLISH AN ORDERED METHODOLOGY, SKILLS NECESSARY TO THE PROJECT AND TO EMPLOYMENT.
Reflection

6. DEMONSTRATE THE ABILITY TO EDIT AND PROOF READ A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF WRITING ACCURATELY AND CRITICALLY.
Application

20% WORKBOOK
a) For Novellas and Short Story Collections
i) book synopsis [Learning Outcomes 1, 5, 6]
ii) sample chapters/ story [2,000] [Learning Outcomes 5, 6]
OR
b) For Poets
i) 10 completed poems [Learning Outcomes 1, 5, 6]
ii) Cover letter for editor [Learning Outcomes 5, 6]


80% PORTFOLIO (final piece)
a) For Novellas and Short Stories
i) Completed Novella or Collection of Short Stories [10,000] [Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5]
ii) Contextualizing critical reflection [Learning Outcomes 3, 4]
OR
b)For Poets
i) A completed Chapbook of 40-48 pages of poetry [Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5]
ii) Contextualizing critical reflection[Learning Outcomes 3, 4]

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

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.

This module is delivered via blended learning: short face to face ‘modulettes’ followed by a distance learning, independent research and writing period supported by online discussion and tutorials.

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

VLE, Library.