Dissertation (90%) 15,000 words (1,3,4,5)
Critical Introduction or Afterword (10%) 2,000 (4, 2)

This module allows the student an opportunity to compose a sustained, independent piece of creative writing: a novella, playscript, a collection of poems or stories, or a combination of these in the style or genre of their choosing.

1. demonstrate knowledge of developments contemporary techniques and practice in creative writing and an in-depth knowledge of a relevant area of literature
Knowledge and Understanding

2. demonstrate a critical understanding of current research and advanced scholarship in relation to an aspect creative process and contemporary writing
Analysis

3. apply complex critical and theoretical concepts and writing technique in a novel or original way
Application

4. organise and develop draft material, research, and analysis of craft and process in a to form a substantial piece of creative writing.
Reflection
Enquiry

5. independently organise and manage and deliver a substantial and professionally composed creative project
Problem Solving
Commination

Students will be allocated a supervisor who will help them to establish the content and objectives (the research question) of the dissertation. Supervisions will be conducted by email and Skype.

Library
Blackboard

Each project will determine its own reading list, but these general creative writing guides are recommended:

Dolowitz, D (2008). Researching Online. London: Palgrave.
Bell, J. and Magrs, P (2001) The Creative Writing Coursebook. London: Macmillan.
Goldberg, N. (1986) Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Boston: Shambala Press.
Hairston, M. and Keene, M.( 2003) Successful Writing. NY: W.W. Norton
Lamott, A. (1980). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. N.Y: Bantam Books
Maitland, S. (2005) The Writer’s Way. London: Arcturus
Morley, D. (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. Cambridge: CUP
Wolf, R. (2001) Jump Start: How to Write from Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford UP.