Advanced Writing Practice
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL3082 | English | 3 | 20 | Autumn Malaysia |
- Code
- ENGL3082
- School
- English
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn Malaysia
Summary
This module will allow you to build upon the skills established in previous Creative Writing modules and put them into practice by conducting workshops overseen by the tutor. At this stage you will determine the balance of poetry and prose for their assignment while continuing to engage in various forms of creative and analytical responses to selected readings. Particular issues for consideration in prose might include narrative voice and technique, point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, and setting; while in poetry issues such as form, metre, and prosody will be addressed. By the end of the module you will revise work based upon feedback and suggestions received during workshop.
Target Students
Compulsory for all final-year students on Q3W8 English with Creative Writing. Optional for all final-year students on single and joint honours English programmes.
Classes
- One 3-hour workshop each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 15% Coursework 1: Reflective essay on poetry (750 words), submitted at end of Autumn semester.
- 35% Project 1: Original writing specific to literary form: two poems totalling 40 lines, submitted at end of Autumn semester.
- 15% Coursework 2: Reflective essay on prose (750 words), submitted at end of Spring semester.
- 35% Project 2: Original writing specific to literary form: one 1750-word short story, submitted at end of Spring semester.
Educational Aims
To provide students with an opportunity to develop their skills as writers To elicit and contextualise responses to their creative work To articulate constructive responses to the work of others, and to develop a working knowledge of the creative processLearning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding of:
- the elements of prose fiction, including narrative voice and technique, point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, and setting.
- the elements of poetry, including form, metre, and prosody
- the process of editorial feedback and revision
- constructive responses to the work of others
Intellectual skills
- the ability to think analytically about works in progress
- the ability to assess critically one’s own work
- the ability to discuss and apply editorial suggestions to one’s own writing
Professional skills
- the ability to develop a work in progress in accordance with the responses of others
- the ability to write adaptively in an assigned context
Transferable skills
- the ability to reflect upon and assess progress of oneself and others
Conveners
- Dr Shivani Sivagurunathan