Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Seminar
Workshop
Module Offerings
7023WRIT-JAN-MTP
Aims
- To further develop creative, formal, and technical skills of drafting and editing.
- To confirm and foster an original and creative voice as writer through sustained attention on the students' own work and that of their workshop peers.
- To exercise a practical and analytical knowledge of writerly practice through self and peer appraisal
- To reinforce a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to research that enriches and advances their creative work.
- To further elaborate skills of scholarly presentation, organization, communication, documentation and evaluation
- To prepare students for individual work on their portfolio.
- To develop students’ awareness and understanding of the creative and literary industries through class engagement with and visits from agents, writers, publishers and industry professionals.
Students will gain vocational skills in evaluation and assessment, communication skills in providing feedback, writing and critical skills and appropriate critical and theoretical writing and referencing.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Fairly evaluate in workshops and in commentaries the writing of their peers, and know how to justify those evaluations in depth, and with reference to contemporary writing and theory.
2.
Edit and present their own work to a professional standard.
3.
Research effectively a chosen topic and relate this to a peer's work and the student's own processes.
4.
Further develop and deepen work through advanced analysis and redrafting, demonstrating self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems.
5.
Reflect on and examine key industry practices in relation to publishing, marketing and promoting writing.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
For the first half of the semester, students will consider tabled work in small groups and the whole class group alternatively. Although they will continue to generate new writing, the emphasis will be in part on the process of appraising and editing, and the preparation of work to a professional standard, and preparing for the portfolio.
With small cohorts of less than 10, students will workshop more often with the whole class and with PGR students who attend the classes as interested peers keen to work with other creative writers.
Sessions will involve regular discussions of the reasons for peer appraisal, its relation to self-appraisal, and the generic grade criteria.
During the first half of the semester students will submit at least one piece of work for workshop discussion in groups of eight or less. The submission will be peer appraised with feedback from the whole cohort and the teacher.
Workshops will continue to the end of semester and each student will be allocated a supervisor to advise on the preparation and writing of the final portfolio for the commencement of the summer semester subject 7024WRIT.
Students will also critically write about the process of editing in a critical/theoretical essay on a topic set by the teacher.
For the first half of the semester, students will consider tabled work in small groups and the whole class group alternatively. Although they will continue to generate new writing, the emphasis will be in part on the process of appraising and editing, and the preparation of work to a professional standard, and preparing for the portfolio.
With small cohorts of less than 10, students will workshop more often with the whole class and with PGR students who attend the classes as interested peers keen to work with other creative writers.
Sessions will involve regular discussions of the reasons for peer appraisal, its relation to self-appraisal, and the generic grade criteria.
During the first half of the semester students will submit at least one piece of work for workshop discussion in groups of eight or less. The submission will be peer appraised with feedback from the whole cohort and the teacher.
Workshops will continue to the end of semester and each student will be allocated a supervisor to advise on the preparation and writing of the final portfolio for the commencement of the summer semester subject 7024WRIT.
Students will also critically write about the process of editing in a critical/theoretical essay on a topic set by the teacher.
Module Overview:
This module aims to provide you with the creative, formal, and technical skills of drafting and editing; it confirms and fosters an original and creative voice as a writer through sustained attention on your own work. It:
This module aims to provide you with the creative, formal, and technical skills of drafting and editing; it confirms and fosters an original and creative voice as a writer through sustained attention on your own work. It:
- enables you to exercise practical and analytical knowledge of writing through self and peer appraisal
- helps you to reinforce a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to research that enriches and advances your creative work
- enhances your skills of scholarly presentation, organisation communication, documentation and evaluation
Additional Information:
While the impetus of the module is on the production of original work and critical self- reflection, this module is also a preparation for the next module: a series of individual tuitions, and the production of a portfolio and commentary that will combine, at greater length, both original creation and critical self-reflection. Students will be encouraged to continue to meet for peer-led workshops for this module so there will be an emphasis that the skills acquired and reinforced in this module will be continued to be developed independently in the next.
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) if negotiated with the tutor prior to submission and if considered essential to the success of the assignment.
While the impetus of the module is on the production of original work and critical self- reflection, this module is also a preparation for the next module: a series of individual tuitions, and the production of a portfolio and commentary that will combine, at greater length, both original creation and critical self-reflection. Students will be encouraged to continue to meet for peer-led workshops for this module so there will be an emphasis that the skills acquired and reinforced in this module will be continued to be developed independently in the next.
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) if negotiated with the tutor prior to submission and if considered essential to the success of the assignment.