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Finding a Voice

Module description

This creative writing module aims to give you an opportunity to develop your creative writing through a series of workshops. The module will develop writing practices through the examination of both fiction, poetry, and plays, in addition to practical exercises in creative writing. You will develop an appreciation of the process of writing, revising, and editing you work in response to an audience of peers and experts. Through practical exercises and seminar discussions, you will explore a variety of textual forms, styles and content and build a project according to your own tastes and interests showing how you have implemented the techniques taught on the module.

Module aims - intentions of the module

This module will aim to allow you to develop a substantial portfolio of creative writing, showing the development of a project based on reading, research and writing practice. You will develop processes and techniques of writing, including drafting, revising, editing, self-reflection and techniques of project development. Student participation and commentary in seminars is integral. There will be an emphasis on introducing key concepts in the fortnightly lectures; developing these concepts and techniques in lively seminar writing workshops; group work, and informal individual presentations in seminars. 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 1. Demonstrate a range of creative writing styles and approaches
• 2. Describe formally and generically a range of English and translated literary pieces

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 3. Produce pieces of creative writing, in agreement with specified forms and genres taught on the module
• 4. Present written and oral arguments concerning your own creative writing and the work of other authors, both peers and published authors

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 5. Through seminar work demonstrate communication skills, and work both individually and in groups
• 6. Demonstrate appropriate research and bibliographic skills, construct a coherent, substantiated argument, skills of creative expression and write clear and correct prose

Syllabus plan

The module is delivered mostly through the five 3-hour seminars. During seminars you will discuss a piece of literature from a formal perspective, before moving on to workshopping your own work in peer dialogue. You will deliver at the end of the module a reflective piece on your writing process and a piece of creative writing.

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Formative assessment

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Details of summative assessment

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Re-assessment notes

Deferral – if you miss an assessment for certificated reasons judged acceptable by the Mitigation Committee, you will normally be either deferred in the assessment or an extension may be granted. If the seminar participation is deferred, it cannot be repeated so the written pieces will be weighted at 35% and 65%, respectively. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of deferral will not be capped and will be treated as it would be if it were your first attempt at the assessment.

Referral – if you have failed the module overall (i.e. a final overall module mark of less than 40%) you will be required to redo the assessment(s) as necessary. If you are successful on referral, your overall module mark will be capped at 40%.

Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources

• ELE:https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=7813 

Key words search

Creative writing, English