Creative Writing Extended Project - ENG00167M

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Module summary

This capstone module provides you with an opportunity to undertake an independent project in a writing specialism of your choosing, which might take the form of a single extended work of prose, poetry, scriptwriting, or a collection of shorter pieces. You will be guided in the planning and development of your creative project through close supervision by an academic staff member, while also strengthening your ability to reflect upon and relate your writing practice to relevant critical questions.

The creative component of the dissertation should be between 14,000 and 16,000 words for prose or script, 16-20 pages of poetry, or an agreed equivalent. This will include a critical essay of 3,000 words, which relates your practice to key texts, ideas, and the research and development process behind it.

Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Summer Semester 2024-25

Module aims

This module aims to give you the opportunity to design and execute an ambitious independent writing project; to test and enhance your command of the knowledge, skills, and techniques acquired during previous writing modules; to create your own writing strategies and devise methods to carry them out while supported by supervisorial guidance; to enable you to understand and participate actively in the process of project development; and to develop your analytical capacity to reflect on the function, scope and effectiveness of your own research and writing process.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, you should be able to:

1. Apply and extend the understanding, skills, and knowledge acquired through your work on earlier modules;
    

2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the relationship between form and content for your chosen mode of writing;
    

3. Demonstrate an understanding of relevant aspects of writing craft, which might include character and dialogue, plot and action, narrative and structure, voice and image, and how they are created and developed;
    

4. Present a piece of creative writing according to the conventions of your chosen form;
    

5. Analyse and reflect critically on your own research and writing process with insight and self-awareness.

Indicative assessment

Task	% of module mark
Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation	100.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task	% of module mark
Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation	100.0

Module feedback

You will receive feedback on all assessed work within the University deadline, and will often receive it more quickly. The purpose of feedback is to inform your future work; it is designed to help you to improve your work, and the Department also offers you help in learning from your feedback. If you do not understand your feedback or want to talk about your ideas further you can discuss it with your module tutor, the MA Convenor or your supervisor, during their Feedback and Consultation Hours. 

Indicative reading

Reading and research will depend upon the subject of the dissertation.