KWB211 Creative Writing: Style and Technique
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| Unit code: | KWB211 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KWB211 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Craig Bolland | c.bolland@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit is a masterclass in literary style. Each week in this unit we will look at how one writer produces a particular technique or effect well, we will unpack at a language level exactly what they are doing, and then we will use this understanding to produce a written piece for the week employing that technique. In essence, this unit provides an opportunity to develop different writing techniques through guided writing exercises and theoretical analyses of texts with an emphasis on style and effect. Here you move beyond the basic elements of fiction and develop advanced techniques in creative and professional writing at a low, language-oriented level. Intensive tutorial-based work, self-directed creative practice, guided critical analysis and asynchronous on-line activities characterise the teaching and learning in this unit.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an applied understanding of a broad range of stylistic and technical devices used in writing and publishing prose fiction.
- Critically analyse and engage with stylistic and technical devices used by a wide range of published authors.
- Develop and write experimental narrative, including deliberate manipulation of reader experience through critically applied technique.
- Apply techniques of rewriting and editing to both fictive and non-fiction narratives.
Content
The content we will address in this unit includes a mixture of reader response and stylistic/linguistic theory; analyses of exemplars of literary style; strategies and specific techniques for writing prose; and advanced narrative technique.
Learning Approaches
Classes will comprise a weekly lecture, a tutorial, and online self-directed learning. Combining reader response and stylistic/linguistic theory, you will be encouraged to engage in guided writing exercises designed to strengthen specific prose techniques.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative written feedback from teaching staff after each of the major assessment items. Furthermore, you will receive ongoing formative feedback throughout the semester both online and in class from your peers, and in classroom discussions with teaching staff.
Assessment
Overview
To demonstrate your development as a writer, and your growing understanding of writing style and technique, you are required to submit two items for assessment for this unit. One is an oral presentation and the other a portfolio of responses to written tasks undertaken throughout the semester.
Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Canvas site for this unit. This includes information about late assignments and assignment extensions.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Presentation (oral)
You will give an in-class presentation of an analysis of a selected work of prose fiction by a published author. This presentation comprises an analysis of one aspect of style or technique used by the author as demonstrated by a close stylistic reading of the author's work. It includes an analysis of how specific language choices inflect and direct readers' meaning-making. The presentation notes are to be uploaded to a digital repository.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio
You will submit a writing portfolio arising from a series of in-class writing exercises. It will include short pieces of prose fiction and reflective analyses of the techniques used in these pieces. The portfolio is submitted for feedback throughout semester, and is assessed mid and end semester. This assessment includes formative (developmental) and summative elements (evaluation for a grade).
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 and the unit’s Canvas website.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
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.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
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 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO4
KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO4
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | KWB211 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit is a masterclass in literary style. Each week in this unit we will look at how one writer produces a particular technique or effect well, we will unpack at a language level exactly what they are doing, and then we will use this understanding to produce a written piece for the week employing that technique. In essence, this unit provides an opportunity to develop different writing techniques through guided writing exercises and theoretical analyses of texts with an emphasis on style and effect. Here you move beyond the basic elements of fiction and develop advanced techniques in creative and professional writing at a low, language-oriented level. Intensive tutorial-based work, self-directed creative practice, guided critical analysis and asynchronous on-line activities characterise the teaching and learning in this unit.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an applied understanding of a broad range of stylistic and technical devices used in writing and publishing prose fiction.
- Critically analyse and engage with stylistic and technical devices used by a wide range of published authors.
- Develop and write experimental narrative, including deliberate manipulation of reader experience through critically applied technique.
- Apply techniques of rewriting and editing to both fictive and non-fiction narratives.
Content
The content we will address in this unit includes a mixture of reader response and stylistic/linguistic theory; analyses of exemplars of literary style; strategies and specific techniques for writing prose; and advanced narrative technique.
Learning Approaches
Classes will comprise a weekly lecture, a tutorial, and online self-directed learning. Combining reader response and stylistic/linguistic theory, you will be encouraged to engage in guided writing exercises designed to strengthen specific prose techniques.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative written feedback from teaching staff after each of the major assessment items. Furthermore, you will receive ongoing formative feedback throughout the semester both online and in class from your peers, and in classroom discussions with teaching staff.
Assessment
Overview
To demonstrate your development as a writer, and your growing understanding of writing style and technique, you are required to submit two items for assessment for this unit. One is an oral presentation and the other a portfolio of responses to written tasks undertaken throughout the semester.
Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Canvas site for this unit. This includes information about late assignments and assignment extensions.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Presentation (oral)
You will give an in-class presentation of an analysis of a selected work of prose fiction by a published author. This presentation comprises an analysis of one aspect of style or technique used by the author as demonstrated by a close stylistic reading of the author's work. It includes an analysis of how specific language choices inflect and direct readers' meaning-making. The presentation notes are to be uploaded to a digital repository.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio
You will submit a writing portfolio arising from a series of in-class writing exercises. It will include short pieces of prose fiction and reflective analyses of the techniques used in these pieces. The portfolio is submitted for feedback throughout semester, and is assessed mid and end semester. This assessment includes formative (developmental) and summative elements (evaluation for a grade).
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 and the unit’s Canvas website.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
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.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
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 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO4
KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO4