Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Screen School

Learning Methods

Lecture
Workshop

Module Offerings

7025WRIT-SEP-MTP

Aims

The module will address key ideas about style, structure and genre ideas through weeks of lectures, class presentations and writing workshops. During the 12 weeks of the module we aim to teach you in the following ways, utilising guest lecturers, staff with expertise in a wide range of writing structures and styles and class participation through writer workshops, discussion and feedback:

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:This module explores the ways narratives take shape and the choices writers make to ensure that the style, structure and genre in which they write best suits the story they want to tell. It utilises common themes in writing - the hero's journey, the descent and return, the coming of age, the love story, to name a few, to examine how these tropes have been addressed by poets, novelists, short fiction writers and playwrights and how the themes have changed or metamorphosed into something quite different from the original story by an adept use of new writing approaches. The module will allow you to critically and creatively explore your own writing ideas in the context of other writers and their influences. It will assist you to pose important questions to your own creative ideas and approaches – particularly questions about the best ways in which to craft a story be it through poetry, short fiction, a crime novel or a young adult work. In doing this you’ll engage with ideas that have shaped human storytelling from our earliest times, reflecting on their reiteration in contemporary narratives.
Module Overview:
By engaging with a range of genres, styles and structures you will enhance your understanding of your own and other authors writing.
Additional Information:Weeks 1 - 3 Style and Structure - how do ideas take shape and how do writers determine the best style and structure for their stories? Weeks 4- 6 Style and Structure - written and spoken voice and point of view Weeks 7 - 9 Genre Weeks 10 – 12 Workshopping - Intense workshopping of student work in genre/stylistically defined groups.

Assessments

Report
Essay
Portfolio