2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL2075 Developing Creative Writing

40 creditsClass Size: 40

School of English

Module manager: Dr Ross Raisin
Email: r.r.raisin@leeds.ac.uk

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

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisites

ENGL1012

Writing Creatively

Module replaces

ENGL2070 - Developing Creative Writing

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

Developing Creative Writing offers a Level Two module for students to engage in the practice and consideration of creative writing at university level. Seminar 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.

Objectives

As a module Developing Creative Writing is designed to extend the practice introduced to English with Creative Writing undergraduates by Writing Creatively at Level One. This module continues to provide you with the ongoing guidance that will help you develop further the new creative writing projects that you produce in an academic environment.

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. You will receive constructive feedback from your tutor on your new and maturing plans to allow you to revise and develop them still further. Assessment on the course will be based on the creative elements you produce as well as critical reflections on them.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you should be able to:
1. Write creatively in genres that may include fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
2. Read like a writer across a broad range of predominantly contemporary writing.
3. Have an established practice of reflecting on and developing your writing as part of an ongoing dialogue with fellow students in the group and with the tutor.
4. Write with objectivity about their own critical perspective on this process and on the work that it produces.

Syllabus

1. Discussion of plans and specialist reading lists with peers and tutor in class.
2. Weekly seminar groups throughout semesters one and two.
3. Discussion of own work and salient works of published literature.
4. Assessments developed in dialogue with the group and with the tutor.
Final pieces to 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
Seminar	20	3.00	60.00
Private study hours			340.00
Total Contact hours			60.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

QAA benchmarks confirm that the teaching of creative writing at university level is focused on weekly seminars and makes frequent use of regular tutor and peer feedback and group discussion. Seminars are, in part, spaces to which each student is expected to bring new work developed through private study; work which will be given verbal and written formative feedback by the seminar tutor, as well as peers, by way of a group discussion facilitated by the seminar tutor. This feedback will be given to works in progress of creative writing in fiction/creative non-fiction or poetry. The frequency and length of this work will be ascertained once seminar group sizes are made known, but each student should expect to submit at least 1000 words of prose/50 lines of poetry 2-4 times each semester.

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. The module will also include, each semester, an informal presentation to the student's seminar group and tutor, focusing on the learning that they have achieved pertaining to their choice of specialism.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Portfolio	First creative submission of 3000 words each or poetry equivalent (50 lines = 1000 words or an agreed equivalent in pages or other methods of delivery if visual/sound/performance/intermedia poetry)	40.00
Written Work	First critical reflection of 1000 words	10.00
Portfolio	Second creative submission of 3000 words each or poetry equivalent (50 lines = 1000 words or an agreed equivalent in pages or other methods of delivery if visual/sound/performance/intermedia poetry)	40.00
Written Work	Second critical reflection of 1000 words	10.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Both pieces of creative writing will be 3000 words in length, or will take the form of a sequence of works in another genre (such as poetry) that the module tutor deems equivalent to that range. Accompanying both submissions will be acts of critical reflection of 1000 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: 02/08/2024

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