KWB118 Swords and Spaceships: Writing Genre
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| Unit code: | KWB118 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KWB118 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Rohan Wilson | rohan.wilson@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit surveys current trends in genre writing and popular fiction with a focus on writing for reader engagement. You will have the opportunity to develop a piece of writing that makes use of the techniques of your chosen genre and that reflects the concerns and themes appropriate to your genre. It includes focused writing exercises that will enhance the skills needed to develop, research, and write a genre text. It also aims to help you develop an understanding of genre theory. The unit develops your critical understanding of your own and others’ approaches to the writing life, and the theories of genre that underpin those approaches.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand and engage with your chosen genre.
- Critically understand a professional writer's writing praxis.
- Critically understand your own writing praxis.
- Produce a portion of an original work.
Content
This unit includes content that will address the specific thematic concerns of the relevant genres. It also includes focused writing exercises that will enhance the skills needed to develop, research, and write a genre text.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be taught through an interdependent mixture of:
- lectures
- tutorials
- individual student-directed learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester
- comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets
- criteria sheet grading
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit consists of two pieces of work, the first being a creative work and the second being a critical essay.
The creative work is designed to measure how well you understand and engage with your chosen genre and your ability to produce a portion of an original work.
The critical essay is designed to measure how well you critically understand a professional writer’s writing praxis, critically understand your own writing praxis and produce a portion of an original work.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Creative Portfolio
Length: 2000-2500 word (or agreed equivalent) creative piece + synopsis (500 words).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Essay
An exegetical essay detailing your creative and critical influences. Length: 1500 - 2000 words.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Required resources for this unit will be provided via QUT Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO2 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO4 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4