Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Screen School

Learning Methods

Seminar
Workshop

Module Offerings

7020WRIT-SEP-MTP

Aims

This module offers students an opportunity to learn about writing and reading through an emphasis on craft and reading skills. In this module the pedagogical aims are for the students:

To learn to ‘read as a writer’ to enhance their writing skills by analysing, reviewing and emulating the exemplary writing skills of other writers from diverse cultures and backgrounds. In reading as a writer gain an ability to analyse texts, performances and broadcasts, and respond to the affective power of language, using appropriate approaches, terminology and creative strategies;

To undertake writing exercises to identify and develop an original and creative voice as writers.

To acquire a practical and analytical knowledge of writerly techniques sufficient to inform complex, creative composition and problem solving.

Understand and practise creative, formal, and technical skills appropriate to Writing at Masters level from the conception of an idea, to the completion of a major writing project;

To identify and reflect on equality and diversity in writing and to read more widely and critically across a range of cultures and backgrounds.

To emphasise the importance of presenting work to professional standards and accuracy and editing to the creative writing process.

To initiate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to research that enriches and advances their creative work.

To establish and practise skills of scholarly presentation, organisation communication, documentation and evaluation

To demonstrate a critical awareness of writerly commentary, especially that which shapes or generates current writing.

To present and discuss writers with the class through short class presentations.

To read other students’ work and provide constructive feedback on it, thus also learning how to apply these critical reading skills to their own work also.

To reflect on and discuss their current reading and what they have gained from it.

To discuss current industry practices in regards to reading and writing cultures.

Through their course assessments to practice and test their ideas through creative and critical application of their knowledge and ideas.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
During the module students will:
  • Research published/performed work in a range of forms (poetry, prose fiction and script)
  • Learn to analyse writing by ‘reading as a writer’ to explore, reflect on and understand writerly techniques.
  • Analyse aspects of technique such as narrative, characterisation, structure, genre, style and point of view
  • Research key aspects of the writing process such as keeping a writer's journal, generating new material and drafting with particular reference to ideas generated by tutors and guest lecturers
  • Discuss the work of practitioners who have considered the practice of writing and reflect on a diverse range of work from writers from different cultural, social and socio-economic backgrounds.
  • Be introduced to the experience of a post-graduate writers’ workshop. Reflect on the industry and publishing and vocational opportunities within it Continue developing the practice of writing.

Start to contextualise their own writing in relation to their own reading to establish a writerly identity.
Module Overview:
This module aims to introduce you to creative, formal research and technical skills appropriate to writing at Masters level, in particular the techniques of contemporary writing. It:
  • enables you to identify and develop an original and creative voice as a writer
  • enables you to acquire a practical and analytical knowledge of writing techniques sufficient to inform complex, creative composition and problem solving
  • helps you to understand and initiate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to research that enriches and advances their creative work
  • establishes your practical skills of scholarly presentation, organisation communication, documentation and evaluation
  • helps you to demonstrate a critical awareness of writerly commentary, especially that which shapes or generates current writing
Additional Information:
This module is designed to introduce and establish post-graduate research skills of presentation, organisation and documentation, and to encourage the student to bring to fruition the technical, cognitive and narrative skills they have acquired to produce a writing portfolio and reflection, using their own strengths and that of the community of writers of which they are a part. As a guideline Original Writing would be 3,000 words of prose narrative or narrative; 130 lines of poetry; a script for stage, screen or radio of up to 15 minutes or an excerpt from a longer script. Original work may come below these limits (but not above).

Assessments

Essay
Portfolio
Essay