Learning to Read: Criticism for Creative Writers
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4221 | English | 4 | 20 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- ENGL4221
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
In this module students will develop skills in reading and writing critically as a creative writer. The module will develop students' ability to contextualise their own work within wider literary, theoretical, personal, and cultural contexts as well as offering the opportunity for students to critically explore the relationships between writer and creative industries, text and audience. Through an investigation of a wide range of texts and forms, students will reflect and analyse the technique and craft being employed in their own and others’ creative work. Students will also explore and write various hybridic forms of writing that cross traditional boundaries of prose, poetry and non-fiction, such as the lyric essay, experimental criticism, autofiction, and autotheory.
Target Students
Only available to on-site postgraduate students in the School of English.
Classes
- One 2-hour workshop each week for 11 weeks
Assessment
- 40% Coursework 1: 2,000 words critical essay
- 60% Coursework 2: 3,000-word Creative/critical piece
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
To provide students with an opportunity to: contextualise their own work within wider literary, theoretical, personal, and cultural contexts; critically explore the relationships between writer and creative industries, text and audience.Learning Outcomes
(a) Knowledge and understanding
- contemporary writing technique and criticism (A1)
- public and professional contexts of writing, publishing and performance (A2)
- the process of editorial feedback and revision (A4)
- constructive responses to the work of others (A3)
(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 (B4)
(c) Professional practical skills
- the ability to develop a work in progress in accordance with the responses of others (C1, C4)
- the ability to write adaptively in an assigned context (C2, C3)
(d) Transferable (key) skills
- communicate effectively in writing and discussion (D1, D2)
- the ability to reflect upon and assess progress of oneself and others within a professional context (D2)
- develop organisational and vocational skills (D2)