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Effective Creative Practice: Creativity, Theory And The Craft Of Writing - CED00005M

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  • Department: Centre for Lifelong Learning
  • Module co-ordinator: Information currently unavailable
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
    • See module specification for other years: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2021-22

Module aims

The module aims to:

  • Explore creativity and its links to scholarly and imaginative practice
  • Establish a tone of academic rigour alongside inspirational creativity
  • Develop knowledge of approaches designed to promote creativity
  • Extend the range of writing experience through the examination and production of literature in poetry, prose and scripting
  • Develop communication, comprehension and co-operation alongside analytical, critical thinking
  • Develop research skills
  • Develop self awareness as a literary practitioner
  • Facilitate the development of critiquing skills
  • Develop confidence in the generation of new writing
  • Create regular reflective practice, through the keeping of a Learning Log

Module learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

Subject content

  • Understand how creativity is generated and harnessed
  • Understand a range of techniques and conventions within the varied forms of creative writing; poetry, prose and scripting
  • Use appropriate narrative and poetic techniques
  • Demonstrate innovative thought
  • Critically reflect and discuss their own, and the writing of other, students

Academic and graduate skills

  • Show knowledge of key critical theory
  • An ability to read closely and critically in a range of literary and non-literary texts
  • Demonstrate an ability to articulate literary criticism in scholarly terms
  • Employ research skills
  • Reflect critically on their own and other students work

Other learning outcomes

  • Display self confidence in their writing
  • Be an active group member who is valued and values others
  • Have increased sensitivity and support to other group members
  • Exercise initiative, personal autonomy, the ability to work to a deadline, a word limit and within a specific form

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Coursework		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Coursework		 N/A 100

Module feedback

The tutor will give regular individual feedback throughout the module on work submitted.

The assessment feedback is as per the university’s guidelines with regard to timings.

Indicative reading

  • Csikszentmihali, M. Creativity. (1996) London: HarperCollins.
  • Morley, D. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. (2007) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Woolf,J. Writing About Literature. (2005) Oxon: Routledge
  • Straczynski, J.M. The Complete Book of Scriptwriting. (1997) USA: Writers Digest Books.
  • Strand, M. & Boland, E. The Making of a Poem. (2001) USA: Norton Paperbacks
  • Zander, R. & Zander,B. The Art of Possibility: Transforming professional and Personal Life. (2000) Boston, USA: Harvard Business School
  • Anderson, L. Creative Writing. (2006) Oxon: Routledge
  • Cameron,J. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. (10th anniversary edition) (2006) USA: Jeremy P. Tarcher. (Penguin)


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