2019/20 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LLLC2287 Creative Writing Workshop Two

20 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Becky Cherriman
Email: B.A.Cherriman@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

Pre-requisite qualifications

Students will have an interest in developing their creative writing skills and techniques, in the context of developing their own work, specifically within the forms of poetry or prose.

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

If you want to develop your approach to and understanding of creative writing, then Creative Writing Workshop Two sounds like the place for you.The workshop brings students together to encourage, challenge and develop their writing with the support and guidance of an experienced writer. The tutor will set writing exercises, lead workshop discussions of work-in-progress, and help you to develop your capacity to give, receive and act upon constructive feedback. Students will be encouraged to identify and work with the themes and forms that interest them. The module has a specific focus upon prose and poetry, though the scope for exploring these forms is vast; for example students may wish to develop spoken-word poetry, or a story for a digital platform.The module is assessed wholly by coursework and requires your active and regular participation in writing exercises and workshop discussions of your own and your fellow students' work-in-progress.For further information contact Rebecca Stirrup: r.j.stirrup@leeds.ac.uk

Objectives

At the end of this module students will be able to:
1. originate, extend and complete ideas for pieces of creative writing;
2. demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of, and make an informed choice from, the range of options available to writers when constructing creative work;
3. understand and effectively use the workshop method of developing work-in-progress to edit their own and give effective feedback to group members' writing;

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Develop their creative ideas within the parameters of a given form/style;
2. Explore, apply and manipulate the parameters of this form to achieve specific creative goals;
3. Identify their own emerging style and preferences in writing;
4. Critically engage with the historical development and current practice within a variety of writing styles and forms;
5. Critically assess and comment upon the work of others, including that of published authors;
6. Produce clear, artistically coherent and technically accurate creative work;
7. Use language in an affective and intricate fashion.

Skills outcomes
The ability to think and write critically and creatively. A willingness to engage with the creative work of both published writers and your peers. An interest and engagement with creating and developing your own original work.

Syllabus

This module will support students to develop their own creative work, and focus upon the methods that they might engage with to develop, edit and hone both their writing, and their approach to the craft of writing. Students will be invited to critically consider the choices that they make as writers, becoming aware of their aim for the work that they generate and the impact that it ultimately has. They will be encouraged to experiment with a range of styles forms, and approaches. The module requires students to take responsibility for their learning by engaging in flipped classroom activities each week. This will enable students to generate a wide range of original writing, leading them to develop their voice as writers. The course will explore aspects of structure, form and aesthetic effect. Students will be introduced to and supported in workshop methods, whereby individual work is circulated for group comment and criticism.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	11	2.00	22.00
Independent online learning hours			11.00
Private study hours			167.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Independent online learning
A minimum of one-hour engaged online learning activity each week (11-hours)

Private Study Hours
Reading: 57
Writing: 70 hours
Research: 40

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will be given multiple opportunities for formative feedback throughout the module via peer review and regular tutor feedback on work in progress.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2,000 words	30.00
Practical	Example of creative work developed from course work, e.g. either: prose: 3,000 words; or poetry: 60 lines; or other to be negotiated with the tutor; or an appropriate combination of two or more of these, plus 1000- word contextual commentary & annotated bibliography	70.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 08/11/2019

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