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2010/1 Module Catalogue
 Module Code: ELI3010 Module Title: CREATIVE WRITING AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Module Provider: English Short Name: ELI3010
Level: HE3 Module Co-ordinator: DOLOUGHAN F Dr (English)
Number of credits: 40 Number of ECTS credits: 20
 
Module Availability
Year-long
Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment

 

Weighting Towards Module Mark( %)

 

Critical Commentary of 2,500 words on a Narrative Text

 

30%

 

Portfolio of Creative Writing

 

50%

 

Reflective Narrative of 2,000 words on student’s own Creative Writing

 

20%

 
Module Overview
Assuming a dynamic relationship between the critical and the creative, the theoretical and the practical, this module will view creative writing as the apt and transformative use of existing sets of resources in particular professional and creative contexts including media and film, Audiovisual Translation and Audio Description; fiction and life-writing; and poetry. It will focus in semester one on notions of authorship, attribution and agency; textual mediation and intertextuality, ‘originality’ and ‘hybridity’. Semester two will be more practice-based, consisting of workshops in which students will be grouped, broadly speaking, according to disciplinary specialism and/or the contexts in which they wish to explore and improve their creative writing skills.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
It is assumed that students taking the CW Pathway will have successfully completed HE levels 2 + 3.
Module Aims

The module aims to:

 

  • provide a critical and narratological framework which will allow students to evaluate their own work and that of others

     

  • provide opportunities for structured creative and critical work

     

  • create a space for text production in a variety of professional domains and genres

     

  • provide opportunities for self-reflection and reflections on the writing and production process
Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

 

  • demonstrate understanding of the relationship between critical and creative practices

     

  • show familiarity with a range of narrative practices and perspectives

     

  • engage in reasoned critical analysis of particular texts and of their own texts

     

  • produce a range of texts, deemed to be fit for purpose, in response to particular briefs in specific professional and creative contexts
Module Content

Semester 1

 

Weekly Lecture and Seminar (Weekly readings and lecture outlines will be found in the Module Handbook)

 

Week 1

 

Introduction to module: What is narrative?

 

 

Week 2

 

The basic elements of narrative

 

 

Week 3

 

Narrative time

 

 

Week 4

 

Narrative space

 

 

Week 5

 

Authorship, attribution and agency

 

 

Week 6

 

Textual mediation and intertextuality

 

 

Week 7

 

Narrative media

 

 

Week 8

 

Film narratives

 

 

Week 9

 

Media narratives

 

 

Week 10

 

Photographic narratives

 

 

Week 11

 

Audiodescriptive narratives

 

 

Christmas Vacation

 

 

Week 12

 

Revision

 

 

Weeks 13

 

Exams/Assessment

 

 

Weeks 14

 

Exams/Assessment

 

 

Week 15

 

Reading week in preparation for semester 2

 

 

Semester 2 (Workshop sessions, including tutor lecture input, student discussion and writing exercises; full details in Module Handbook)

 

Week 1

 

Models of creative practice

 

 

Week 2

 

Drawing on experience: autobiography and life-writing

 

 

Week 3

 

Drawing on other texts: transposition and adaptation

 

 

Week 4

 

The language of things: precision and exactitude

 

 

Week 5

 

Translating space and representing place

 

 

Week 6

 

Representing time

 

 

Week 7

 

Reporting speech

 

 

Week 8

 

Developing a theme

 

 

Week 9

 

Sequencing and hierarchy

 

 

Easter vacation

 

 

Week 10

 

Revising and editing

 

 

Week 11

 

Review of module

 

 

Week 12

 

Revision

 

 

Weeks 13

 

Exams/ Assessment

 

 

Weeks 14

 

Exams/Assessment

 

 

Weeks 15

 

Exams/Assessment

 

 

Assessment Deadlines:

 

 

Critical Commentary: 12/01/11

 

Portfolio (1): 23/02/11

 

Portfolio (2): 09/03/11

 

Portfolio (3): 11/05/11

 

Reflective Narrative: 18/05/11
Methods of Teaching/Learning
2 hours per week across the year to include lecture input; seminar input; and writing workshops/practical exercises.
Selected Texts/Journals

Recommended Reading

 

Allen, G. (2000), Intertextuality. Abingdon and New York : Routledge

 

Bassnett, S. and P. Bush (eds) (2006), The Translator as Writer. London and New York : Continuum

 

Bell , J. and P. Magrs (eds.) (2001), The Creative Writing Coursebook. London : Macmillan

 

Calvino, I. (1996), Six Memos for the New Millennium. London : Vintage

 

Cobley, P. (2001), Narrative. London and New York : Routledge

 

Currie, M. (1998), Postmodern Narrative Theory. Basingstoke : Palgrave

 

Dawson, P. (2005), Creative Writing and the New Humanities. London and New York : Routledge

 

Eco, U. (2003), Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson

 

Herman, D. (2002), Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

 

Herman, D. (ed) (2007), The Cambridge Companion to Narrative.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

 

Herman, D. (2009), Basic Elements of Narrative. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell

 

Hutcheon, L. (2006), A Theory of Adpatation. New York and London : Routledge

 

Iser, W. (1993), The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins Press

 

McQuillan, M. (2000), The Narrative Reader. Abingdon and New York : Routledge

 

Mills, P. (1996), Writing in Action. London and New York : Routledge

 

Morley, D. (2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. Cambridge : CUP.

 

Nasta, S. (ed.) (2004), Writing Across Worlds: contemporary writers talk. London and New York : Routledge,

 

Perteghella, M. and E. Loffredo (eds) (2006), Translation and Creativity: Perspectives on Creative Writing and Translation Studies. London and New York : Continuum

 

Readman, M (2003), Teaching Scriptwriting, Screenplays and Storyboards for Film and TV Production. London : British Film Institute

 

Rimmon-Kenan, S. (1983), Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. London and New York : Routledge

 

Scott, C. (2000), Translating Baudelaire. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

 

Toolan, M. (2001), Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction (Second Edition). Routledge: London and New York
Last Updated

5 July 2010 JG