KWB326 Creative Writing Project 2
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| Unit code: | KWB326 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | KWB306 or KWB205 |
| 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: | KWB326 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KWB306 or KWB205 |
| Coordinator: | Craig Bolland | c.bolland@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides a unique learning opportunity to complete a sustained body of creative work in a genre or form of your choice and identify market and publication strategies for your work. Building on the project commenced in KWB306 Creative Writing Project 1, it offers you the opportunity to continue work on an extended piece of creative writing with the assistance of critiques and peer feedback. The unit aids you to identify markets for creative practice, develop skills and strategies to submit work to publishers for professional consideration, and identify and create pathways for publication.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify professional markets for your creative practice and strategically target those markets.
- Critically reflect on your writing practice and articulate the intentions you have for your work.
- Synthesise knowledge and skills about contemporary writing debates and practices.
- Compose a sustained creative work that meets real world publishing requirements.
Content
This unit includes content that will facilitate analysis of suitable markets and pathways for the publication of creative writing including awards and other opportunities; development of a professional writing plan suitable to commence a career after graduation; and developing an understanding of the literary landscape in Australia and strategically positioning creative work within that landscape.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be taught through an interdependent mixture of:
- lectures
- tutorials
- peer writing activities
- individual student-directed learning.
You will be expected to display a significant ability for self-directed research and learning, as well as collaborative discussions with peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester.
Assessment
Overview
Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Canvas site for this unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Essay - Publishing Proposal
Complete a project proposal suitable to be submitted to a publisher.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio - Creative Work
Present a folio of creative prose (or other form equivalent) item of creative writing - fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, script.
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: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO4 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO4