ENG6745 - Writing: Breaking the Rules

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 combines creative writing, critical reading and historical/theoretical components to give students the opportunity to understand what experimental writing is and to develop their own practice. Throughout the module, the emphasis is on writing using a range of procedures and strategies. The module looks at innovations in prose and poetry and explores such techniques as chance, substitution, and fractured narrative and time structures. It also explores historical and theoretical aspects of experimental writing, and draws upon a range of literary texts from diverse writers outside of the cultural mainstream.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Workshops
Hours: 22
Intended Group Size: 20

Individual Supervision
Hours: 3

Guided independent study
Hours: 125

Further details relating to assessment
The essay will be a reflective critique of a passage of text.

The final portfolio may be made up of a collection of short pieces or one long piece, as agreed with the Module Tutor. For guidance, 1,000 words of prose submission is generally considered as equivalent to 30 lines of poetry. 500 words should be given to reflective analytical Commentary.

The Commentary should identify the sources and inspirations for the writing as well as analysing creative choices and the intended effects of these choices.

Formative assessment is built in to the teaching sessions. At each session from the second teaching week onwards, in both semesters, students will take turns to read out their draft pieces of creative writing and receive verbal feedback in class from the tutor and fellow students.

Assessment:

001 Essay; 1,000 words; end of semester 1 30%
002 Portfolio; 2,000 words; 1,500 creative, 500 commentary; end of semester 2 70%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Prof. Paul Hardwick
Level - 6
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6YL

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