Dissertation in Creative Writing
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4111 | English | 4 | 60 | Summer UK |
- Code
- ENGL4111
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 60
- Semesters
- Summer UK
Summary
Students will develop both a portfolio of creative writing and a self-directed piece of critical writing in consultation with their supervisor(s). There will be a published deadline for submission of titles for formal approval by the MA Convenor and the Director of PG(T). The manuscript will normally be based on the interests and skills students have developed in their respective genres during the course of the modules already studied.
Target Students
Compulsory for students on MA Creative Writing. Not available to any other students.
Classes
Students are entitled to a maximum of 4 hours supervision. Preliminary meetings will explore approaches to the dissertation. Supervision thereafter will be arranged with individual students. Tutors will normally undertake to read a treatment plus a chapter or section of the dissertation.
Assessment
- 70% Coursework 1: Creative Component 70%; 11,000 words or 8-12 poems (to be agreed with supervisor); or a combination of these two genres to be negotiated in discussion with your dissertation supervisor(s).
- 30% Coursework 2: Critical Component 30%; 3,000 critical essay on a theme or themes to be agreed with the supervisor(s)
Assessed by end of summer vacation
Educational Aims
To provide students with an opportunity to develop a manuscript and a critical exegesis under the direction of a tutor(s).Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding of
- the process of carrying out sustained independent creative and critical work
- editorial feedback and revision
- constructive responses to works in progress
- the elements of fiction, including narrative voice and technique, point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, and
- setting analysis of individual texts or topics within an intellectual framework informed by current scholarship
Intellectual skills
- the ability to plan and carry out a creative portfolio and critical study
- 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 demonstrate a working knowledge of the one’s project
- the ability to contextualise their own writing within a given framework, historical, cultural or generic
Transferable skills
- the ability to work independently and with some degree of originality or creative application
- the ability to reflect upon and assess progress of oneself