Fiction: Forms and Conventions
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL2024 | English | 2 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- ENGL2024
- School
- English
- Level
- 2
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module expands on the work done in Q31701 Creative Writing Practice by undertaking a sustained analysis of technique and craft related to fiction writing, including narrative voice, point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, and setting. Students will be introduced to a wide and diverse range of writers and techniques as well as exploring the publishing industry as it relates to fiction. They will develop their own creative work as well as their critical and reflective skills.
Target Students
Compulsory for all second-year students on Q3W8 English with Creative Writing. Optional for all second-year students on other SH programmes. Not available to students on Liberal Arts, JH programmes, or 2+2 programmes.ENGL1010 Creative Writing Practice is a pre-requisite for this module.
Co-requisites
Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:
Classes
- One 2-hour workshop each week for 11 weeks
- One 1-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks
Assessment
- 70% Creative Component: Fiction - 3500 words
- 30% Coursework: Critical Essay - 1500 words
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To provide students with an opportunity to develop their skills as prose writers, building on their first year work. To provide a sustained and in-depth examination of technique and craft as it relates to prose and the critical essay. To introduce students to a wide and diverse range of texts. To introduce students to the publishing industry, as it relates to fiction.Learning 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 ability to locate their work within the contemporary context of their chosen genre(s);
•the ability to evaluate and reflect on their own creative process
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