2019/20 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL2070 Developing Creative Writing

40 creditsClass Size: 20

School of English

Module manager: Dr Kimberly Campanello
Email: k.a.campanello@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

Pre-requisites

ENGL1011

Foundations of Creative Writing

This module is mutually exclusive with

ENGL2260

Love, Sex and Marriage in Renaissance England

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

As a module Developing Creative Writing is designed to extend the practice introduced to English with Creative Writing undergraduates by Foundations of Creative Writing at Level One. This module continues to provide you with the regular points of tutorial and teaching support, the learning community, and the ongoing guidance that will help you develop further the new creative writing projects that you produce in an academic environment. Regular small groups with published writers again allow you space and a professional atmosphere in which to consider your own practice of creative writing. You will continue to read widely together, and your conversations about such literature will also be related with growing depth to your own independent projects. Peer review and one-on-one meetings with your module tutor will continue to provide you with constructive feedback on your new and maturing plans and allow you to revise and develop them still further. Assessment on the course will be based entirely on the creative elements you produce as well as critical reflections on them.

Objectives

Developing Creative Writing offers an Level Two module for students to engage in the practice and consideration of creative writing at university level. Small group teaching and regular feedback on drafts from the module tutor allow students to deepen their reflections on their creative process and to shape the ways in which others read their work.

Learning outcomes
1.An ability to write creatively in genres that may include fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and scriptwriting
2.An ability to read like a writer across a broad range of historical and contemporary writing and link their own work to these global writing traditions
3. An ability to draw on the shared knowledge of the group
4. An established practice of reflecting on and developing their writing as part of an ongoing dialogue with fellow students in the group and with the tutor
5. An ability to write with objectivity about their own critical perspective on this process and on the work that it produces

Syllabus

Students will attend weekly seminar groups and peer group sessions throughout semesters one and two. Topics to be discussed in these sessions will range from their own work to salient works of published literature. Assignments will be developed in dialogue with the group and with the tutor. Initial plans and drafts will be discussed in allocated individual tutorials as well as in class. Final pieces will be submitted at the end of semester one and semester two, and marked and moderated by the tutor and another member of the School’s teaching staff.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	8	1.00	8.00
Peer Discussion	20	1.00	20.00
Seminar	20	1.00	20.00
Tutorial	4	0.25	1.00
Private study hours			351.00
Total Contact hours			49.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

QAA benchmarks confirm that the teaching of creative writing at university level is focused on weekly seminars and makes frequent use of regular peer feedback and group discussion, listed here under “Other.” All these points of contact, however, are spaces to which each student is expected to bring new work and new drafts of old work which they have developed through private study. At the beginning of the module it will be made clear that the organisation of this private study time is the responsibility of the individual student. Introductory module material will also confirm that this independent allocation of private study should include significant portions of time for (a) the reading of primary and critical literature, (b) the planning and writing of new work, and (c) the revision and reorganisation of existing drafts.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

In line with QAA Benchmarks, the seminar will here fulfil the function of the Creative Writing Workshop, a space in which “participants” will “read and critically respond to each other's work, operating in a small group in which the role of the tutor is mainly to steer, inform and moderate discussion.” In addition to this regular source of collective discussion and reflection, one-on-one tutorials through both semester offer an opportunity for the students to gain detailed, individual formative feedback from the tutor.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Written Work	Creative Submission of 4000 Words	40.00
Reflective log	Critical Reflection of 800 Words	10.00
Written Work	Creative Submission of 4000 Words	40.00
Reflective log	Critical Reflection of 800 Words	10.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Both pieces of creative writing will be 4,000 words in length, or will take the form of a sequence of works in another genre (such as poetry or drama) that the module tutor deems equivalent to that range. Accompanying both submissions will be acts of critical reflection of 800 words in which the student will offer a critical discussion of the process of feedback and review as determined by the module tutor.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 09/12/2019

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