| CODE | ENG5075 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Critical and Creative Writing | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit combines close reading of examples of various fictional and nonfictional genres with ample opportunities for student practice in writing, reviewing and editing. It aims at helping participants refine their awareness of several aspects of their own writing while providing a space for creative and critical practice in several genres. A combination of lectures, seminars and workshops focusing on topics such as voice, style, tone, angle, argument, structure, feeling, characterisation and place will offer participants the opportunity to move from guided reading to writing. Texts used for the guided reading will include excerpts from fiction, nonfiction and beyond (ranging over prose, poetry, drama, essays, memoir, creative criticism, literary journalism, the column and the review). Participants will be encouraged to study and discuss the readings from the perspective of the craft of writing. They will then be asked to implement what they have learned in several writing tasks in different genres and to refine their work through a process of peer reviewing, redrafting and editing. By the end of the unit, students will have compiled a portfolio of their own writing, ranging over at least two genres. Study-Unit Aims: - To help students develop their writing skills in different critical and creative genres; - To make students aware of various aspects of writing in different genres (voice, style, tone, angle, argument, structure, feeling, characterisation and place) and of ways of how to use this awareness to improve their writing; - To help students compile a portfolio of writing in different genre. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - read a range of creative and critical genres from the perspective of writing craft; - evaluate and analyse writing techniques used in various genres; - write better in various fictional and nonfictional genre; - redraft and edit their own writing; - formulate and express constructive criticism about their peers' writing. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - write better in a variety of critical and creative genres; - edit and redraft their own writing; - review other writers' work. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Tara Mokhtari, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing, 2nd edn (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) - Stephen Connors and Clare Benson, Creative Criticism: An Anthology and Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014) [Available at Faculty of Arts Library] - David Morley, The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) Supplementary Readings: - Francine Prose, Reading Like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Union Books, 2012) - Glyn Maxwell, On Poetry (Harvard University Press, 2016) - Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools (10th Anniversary Edition): 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (New York: Little Brown Spark, 2008) [Available at Main Library] |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Seminar | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Aaron Aquilina Mario Aquilina Ivan Callus |
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