ENG5743 - Writing and Theme

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

The module builds on students’ theoretical and creative work in Level 4 by introducing important recurring themes in literature through critical reading and imaginative writing. Students will study, discuss and respond creatively to a range of poetry and prose dealing with myth, childhood, love and loss. The myth element will draw on Greek and Roman mythology and that of other cultures. Childhood, love and loss will draw on contemporary and non-contemporary literature. The texts studied will form the basis of creative exercises, culminating in the production of a body of original writing in each semester and a reflective commentary.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Seminars/workshops
Hours: 50
Intended Group Size: 20

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Weekly writing tasks will enable formative assessment of work-in-progress. Weekly tasks consist of in-class writing, dovetailed with a return the following week with an edited version of the task, with formative feedback given. This cumulatively builds writing skills and prepares for the assessment. On a rota basis, students will read out their drafts in class and receive verbal feedback from the tutor and fellow students. The tasks will provide students with a range of material from which to select work to develop, revise and edit ahead of submission for summative assessment.

Portfolio 1 will consist of work by the student drawing on the semester’s work, poetry and/or prose, with an understanding that 60 lines of poetry is equivalent to 1,000 words of prose, plus commentary.

Portfolio 2 will be the same for Semester 2. Commentary in each case will be a self-reflective critique of the student’s own writing and editing practices, informed by reading about creative writing, and by processes engaged in during class, such as peer and tutor feedback, and the editing undertaken as a result of that.

Assessment:

001 Portfolio 1; 3,000 words/equivalent; end of sem 1 50%
002 Portfolio 2; 3,000 words/equivalent; end of sem 2 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Martyn Bedford
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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