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Module Offerings
7024WRIT-APR-MTP
Aims
This module is the final module in the program and its weighting at 60 points reflects the final assessment of a 12,000 word creative portfolio and a 3,000 accompanying essay – the two components forming the MA Writing thesis.
The module aims:
- To support and review a student’s supervised and independent writing skills.
- To show creative, formal, and technical skills appropriate to writing at Masters level.
- To format and present work to professional standards.
- To express an original and creative voice as writers.
- To demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to research that enriches and advances their work.
- To reveal a practical and analytical knowledge of writerly techniques sufficient to inform complex creative composition and problem solving.
- To express a critical awareness of critical theory and writerly commentary, especially that which shapes or generates current writing.
- Through supervisory sessions with academic staff, to learn key skills in regards to 1-1 editing discussions, information sharing, arguing and reflecting on their work.
- To write reflectively about research and decisions in regards to composing, extending and editing their creative work.
From each of these component, students will gain additional vocational skills in analysis, collegiality, time keeping and independent writing.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Produce an original project that shows an awareness of relevant writerly techniques specific to the medium.
2.
Act on feedback, mirroring literary industry, to redraft their own writing addressing weaknesses in the original work demonstrating self-direction and originality in problem-solving.
3.
Have developed relevant research skills.
4.
Illustrate an enhanced understanding of the writing process and the theoretical elements that make an effective creative product in the context of relevant contemporary professional standards.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
The portfolio will consist of a substantial piece of creative work, to be negotiated with the supervising tutor (e.g. about 15,000 words of prose, or approximately 700- 800 lines of poetry, or a two-hour stage/radio play(s) or a 90120 minute screenplay). It will be written over the summer and submitted at the end of August. With special concessions, word/line/time limits may be altered with the tutor's permission, but there must be a full understanding that any alteration must be considered by the tutor to be equivalent to the effort and impact of portfolios by the student's peers.
The Portfolio will consist of either a single piece or a collection of pieces of original. The writing must make up a coherent whole, or constitute an integrated collection of parts to the satisfaction of the examiners. Writing submitted as course work during the first four semesters may not count towards the portfolio. However, if a course member has written the introductory part of a longer piece (e.g. the first two chapters of a novella) as coursework submissions, these may be included to contextualise the portfolio, but will not count towards its total length.
The portfolio will be accompanied by a 3,000 word Critical Commentary, in which the student is invited to contextualise their creative work, reflect on their creative processes, cite important influences, describe challenges and problem solving, and reflect on the success or otherwise of his/her creative strategies.
Aims and outcomes are realised mainly through tutorials organized by the teacher through the summer months, wider reading and the habit of writing daily and discussing their work in progress with their ‘supervisor’.
The portfolio will consist of a substantial piece of creative work, to be negotiated with the supervising tutor (e.g. about 15,000 words of prose, or approximately 700- 800 lines of poetry, or a two-hour stage/radio play(s) or a 90120 minute screenplay). It will be written over the summer and submitted at the end of August. With special concessions, word/line/time limits may be altered with the tutor's permission, but there must be a full understanding that any alteration must be considered by the tutor to be equivalent to the effort and impact of portfolios by the student's peers.
The Portfolio will consist of either a single piece or a collection of pieces of original. The writing must make up a coherent whole, or constitute an integrated collection of parts to the satisfaction of the examiners. Writing submitted as course work during the first four semesters may not count towards the portfolio. However, if a course member has written the introductory part of a longer piece (e.g. the first two chapters of a novella) as coursework submissions, these may be included to contextualise the portfolio, but will not count towards its total length.
The portfolio will be accompanied by a 3,000 word Critical Commentary, in which the student is invited to contextualise their creative work, reflect on their creative processes, cite important influences, describe challenges and problem solving, and reflect on the success or otherwise of his/her creative strategies.
Aims and outcomes are realised mainly through tutorials organized by the teacher through the summer months, wider reading and the habit of writing daily and discussing their work in progress with their ‘supervisor’.
Module Overview:
As the culminating component of the MA in Writing, this 60-credit Portfolio should demonstrate the student's ability to write at an advanced level, present his/her work professionally and show a capacity to contextualise and evaluate it in the accompanying Critical Commentary.
As the culminating component of the MA in Writing, this 60-credit Portfolio should demonstrate the student's ability to write at an advanced level, present his/her work professionally and show a capacity to contextualise and evaluate it in the accompanying Critical Commentary.
Additional Information:
As the culminating component of the MA in Writing, this 60-credit Portfolio should demonstrate the student's ability to write at an advanced level, present his/her work professionally and show a capacity to contextualise and evaluate it in the accompanying Critical Commentary.
As the culminating component of the MA in Writing, this 60-credit Portfolio should demonstrate the student's ability to write at an advanced level, present his/her work professionally and show a capacity to contextualise and evaluate it in the accompanying Critical Commentary.