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Description
Weekly workshop-seminar sessions will engage students in identifying and exploring the basic principles of successfully writing and reading prose fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Class discussion time will be given over to topics such as dialogue, character development, point of view, and structure. A reading list of contemporary prose fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction texts will be used as the basis for workshop-seminars and as example technique texts and as the springboard for in-depth critical analysis.
During workshop-seminars, students will engage in peer assessment, providing oral and written critiques of classmates鈥� creative writing (submitted on a rotating basis). Weekly 1:1 tutorials (on a rota basis) will also be provided to allow for further detailed, personal critique and ongoing development of an individual student鈥檚 creative writing and practice.
Teaching delivery
This module is taught in 10 weekly workshop-seminars.
Indicative Topics
Across 10 weeks the module explores the primary genres of creative writing: fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry, with sub genres of the forms such as the personal essay, memoir and autobiography also included. 听
Module Aims and Objectives
- Teach the basic principles of writing prose fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction using a mixture of reading, writing, and peer appraisal.
- Provide students with an opportunity to gain experience of critiquing, reviewing and appraising written work, from creative and critical analysis perspectives, applied in both individual and group-focused settings.
- Enable students to gain greater proficiency and abilities in intensive, in-depth and extensive creative writing and reading.
- Extend a student鈥檚 capacity for creative and critical self-reflection and further develop a student鈥檚 aptitude and abilities in independent analysis, judgement, critical evaluation and thought, in conjunction with progressing redrafting, revision, research and note-taking skills.
- By the end of the module, students will have developed their creative writing skills, increased their technical writing abilities and gained a better understanding of the creative process. They will gain proficiency in analysing and discussing the work and writing of others, and learn how to more effectively communicate concrete ideas, abstract concepts and information using the written word, as well as other media forms.
- Through engaging with the Core reading materials via their own reading and writing practice, alongside the workshop-seminar teachings, they will develop a deeper understanding of, and ability to discuss, the key elements of different forms of creative writing, such as issues of genre, point of view, narrative structure, and technical features.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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