Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool Screen School
Learning Methods
Lecture
Workshop
Module Offerings
6054CW-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To further develop the student's ability to write independently, and to accept responsibility for the development of a writing portfolio.
2. To enable students to adopt a wide range of reading strategies, applied to their own work and the work of others.
3. To encourage students to recognize and move beyond received ideas, familiar and or damaging representations, and stale or cliched expression.
3. To interact effectively with others through collaboration in workshop situations.
4. To develop a nuanced critical awareness from contextualizing their own work within a current publishing framework.
5. To develop further the students' quality of contribution in leading workshops and providing reader's reports.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Write and redraft an original portfolio of creative prose writing, applying techniques from prior learning and reading, and workshop feedback to the redrafting process.
2.
Write a commentary that demonstrates a capacity for self-reflection in terms of research, reading, technique, and workshop leadership and engagement.
3.
Demonstrate an awareness of publishing opportunities and a wider knowledge of current publishing.
4.
Show a sophisticated and sustained ability to use the views of others in the development and enhancement of creative practice.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Students will be encouraged to work autonomously, and to contribute effectively to classes. The techniques of the teaching, reading and writing studied at Levels 4 and 5 will be synthesised into writing a portfolio that should be the best possible showcase for the student's writing, accompanied by a reflection that examines their creative processes and what they have learned through the process of both providing and applying feedback, evidencing both attendance and engagement with the module. Students will research potential publication opportunities, noting where their writing 'sits' in terms of other writers and genres, distilling their work to a log-line and composing a letter that will entice an agent/editor to read their work. This module explicitly positions the student as a professional writer seeking publication.
Students will be encouraged to work autonomously, and to contribute effectively to classes. The techniques of the teaching, reading and writing studied at Levels 4 and 5 will be synthesised into writing a portfolio that should be the best possible showcase for the student's writing, accompanied by a reflection that examines their creative processes and what they have learned through the process of both providing and applying feedback, evidencing both attendance and engagement with the module. Students will research potential publication opportunities, noting where their writing 'sits' in terms of other writers and genres, distilling their work to a log-line and composing a letter that will entice an agent/editor to read their work. This module explicitly positions the student as a professional writer seeking publication.
Module Overview:
This module is designed to encourage the student to use the technical, cognitive and narrative skills they have acquired to produce a writing portfolio and reflection, using their own strengths and those of the community of writers of which they are a part.
As the workshops are based each week on prepared readings of peer students' draft work, suggestions for wider reading and giving thoughtful and detailed critiques, a student's individual contribution is of great importance. The portfolio may consist of fiction or creative non-fiction. The research portfolio further develops good habits in terms of writing for publication and understanding the market.
This module is designed to encourage the student to use the technical, cognitive and narrative skills they have acquired to produce a writing portfolio and reflection, using their own strengths and those of the community of writers of which they are a part.
As the workshops are based each week on prepared readings of peer students' draft work, suggestions for wider reading and giving thoughtful and detailed critiques, a student's individual contribution is of great importance. The portfolio may consist of fiction or creative non-fiction. The research portfolio further develops good habits in terms of writing for publication and understanding the market.