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Students will learn to read contemporary literary fiction with writerly attention, noticing literary craft and technique.
Students will learn to relate their own writing practice to the attentive reading of contemporary literary fiction.
Students will explore in their practice the idea of creative failure.
Students will learn to experiment with ideas and practice, to lessen the fear of failure in composing literary fiction and to understand the value of playfulness in literary practice.
We will alternate reading set texts with writing workshops related to our discussion of the set texts. The set texts are the foundation of your learning on this course and it is necessary for you to read them, in advance and/or as we go along. In workshops, you will experiment with the craft and techniques of the set texts in your own writing practice, and will continue to work on giving and receiving constructive and professional responses to creative work.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 0 |
Small Group | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 76 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 100 |
Total | 200 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Portfolio: Students will produce a portfolio of literary fiction. | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 100 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Throughout the module, you will be working towards a portfolio of literary fiction. This may be one long piece of writing or several shorter ones. In writing workshops, you will reflect on your own development and offer constructive responses to other students' work; I will guide you in both and you may discuss your progress in office hours. I will edit and grade the final portfolio, rewarding experiment and play in your writing process as much as the literary quality of the finished product.