Advanced Writing Practice: Fiction
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL3099 | English | 3 | 20 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- ENGL3099
- School
- English
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
This module builds on the creative writing modules taught in years 1 and 2. It is delivered through a three hour workshop in which the critique of student writing is a central element. You will get to read key writers within specific forms and genres as well as relevant secondary texts. Topics covered will include narrative voice and technique, point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, and setting. By the end of the module you will have been given opportunity to develop and extend your skills and expertise through workshop exercises and the constructive feedback received during the workshop.
Target Students
Compulsory for all final-year students on Q3W8 English with Creative Writing. Optional for all final-year students on single honours English programmes. Not available to JH students or 2+2 students.ENGL1010 Creative Writing Practice is a pre-requisite for this module.
Classes
- One 2-hour workshop each week for 11 weeks
- One 1-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks
Maximum group size of 16 (no cap on module but cap on group size).
Assessment
- 70% Creative Component: Creative Component - Fiction 3500 words
- 30% Coursework: Critical Essay - 1500 words
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
To provide students with an opportunity to develop their skills as writers of fiction, 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 process and the wider publishing industry.Learning Outcomes
(a) Knowledge and understanding
• the elements of prose fiction, including narrative voice and technique, point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, and setting (A3, A7)
• the process of editorial feedback and revision (A1)
• constructive responses to the work of others (A1)
• the wider publishing and creative context (A2)
(b) Intellectual skills
• the ability to think analytically about works in progress (B1, B3)
• the ability to assess critically one’s own work (B2)
• the ability to discuss and apply editorial suggestions to one’s own writing (B1)
(c) Professional practical skills
• the ability to develop a work in progress in accordance with the responses of others (C3, C5, C6)
• the ability to write adaptively in an assigned context (C1, C3, C5, C6)
(d) Transferable (key) skills
• communicate effectively in writing and discussion (D2, D5)
• the ability to reflect upon and assess progress of oneself and others (D6)
• develop organisational and vocational skills (D7)