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Critical Essay

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 50

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You will analyse the aims and strategies of both contemporary and canonical texts, thereby gaining an understanding of writing from the author’s point of view. You will also consider particular styles and movements which will be relevant to your own work. You will be enabled to make independent literary judgments, critique work with clarity and logic, and deploy the strategies of published writers, where relevant, in your own work.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

The Making of a Story. 

The Story and its Writer

The Art of Fiction.

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. 

Gone Girl.

The Writer’s Reader.

Ghost Wall

The Art of Fiction

Telling True Stories.

Mrs. Dalloway

Beloved

What to Read and Why.

Earthsea: The First Four Books. 

Sex & Death.

Burning Down the House.

CWM965 - Reading as a Writer

CWM965-PRD1-PER-ALV1

You will read a selection of fiction and non-fiction writing as well as critical and craft writing describing approaches to creative writing. In seminar you will discuss and analyse these readings and reflect on how you can apply these to your own writing. You will respond to writing prompts to put these techniques into practice in your own writing.  
 
This module is digitally enhanced, part of an in-person programme where all classes are in-person, which also has structured digital resources to support learning such as lecture capture, content delivery through videos, website and reading materials or other forms of digital provision of content.

Reading as a Writer

Use strategies and techniques of established writers, where relevant, to enhance your own creative writing, and reflect on this process. 

Skills

Identify the critical terminology appropriate to the discussion of the craft of creative writing.  

Knowledge

Analyse how contemporary and canonical prose writers deploy techniques and strategies in their work. 

Act autonomously in planning and implementing tasks at the appropriate level. 

Values and attitudes

Critically engage with other writers’ strategies and apply them, where relevant, to your own work.  

Recognise and critically appraise the themes and concerns, approaches and techniques of contemporary and canonical writers. 

Identify and question your own assumptions.  