KWB306 Creative Writing Project 1
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| Unit code: | KWB306 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 72 credit points from KWB%, CWB%, CYB112 or CCB106 |
| Equivalent(s): | 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 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KWB306 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 72 credit points from KWB%, CWB%, CYB112 or CCB106 |
| Equivalent: | KWB205 |
| Coordinator: | Craig Bolland | c.bolland@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides an opportunity to develop an extended creative writing project in your preferred and strongest genre and form. It will allow you to plan and propose an extended piece of creative work through a series of intensive highly participatory tutorials in collaboration with peer critique groups. Though the major covers a range of writing genres, you choose your strongest genre and write with both breadth and complexity. This unit supports you to demonstrate that you have developed a sophisticated voice or style over the three years of study. The piece of work commenced here will continue to be built on in KWB326 Creative Writing Project 2.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a plan for a sustained piece of creative writing.
- Write a sustained piece of creative writing to industry standards.
- Write and rewrite collaboratively with peer critique groups.
- Analyse and provide sophisticated editorial input on manuscript drafts across a wide range of genres and styles.
Content
This unit includes face-to-face and online lectures and tutorials designed to facilitate the development of professional reading, editing and writing skills. The unit will assist you to plan, develop, research, write, edit and submit a sustained creative piece, to a professional standard.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be taught through an interdependent mixture of:
- formal classroom Writing and Reading Discussion Groups
- 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
There are two assessment items for this unit. The first is a series of peer reviews that are designed to develop your abilities to iteratively improve your own creative work. The second assessment item is a project proposal and substantial piece of creative writing.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Peer Critique
Submission Development - A series of activities at key points in the semester designed to develop your abilities to iteratively improve your own creative work, to effectively critique other's work, and to enact strategic plans in the submission of professional standard manuscripts.
- You will be placed into groups for 3 editing rounds. At the end of each round you will submit reviews and assign a grade for each of your group members. At the end of the semester you will receive a grade which is the average of all grades given to you by your peers for all 3 editing rounds. The assessment includes both formative and summative feedback.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Sustained Creative Work
A project proposal and a sustained creative written piece, or agreed equivalent such as a coherent collection of poetry or short stories, submitted to industry standards for an unsolicited manuscript.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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 are requested to visit and review the Health and Safety information on the HiQ web pages (CIESJ Tier 1 HSE requirement).
Resources
Required resources for this unit will be provided via the unit's Canvas site
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 QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
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.
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 - 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: ULO2 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO4 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO3
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | KWB306 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 72 credit points from KWB%, CWB%, CYB112 or CCB106 |
| Equivalent: | KWB205 |
Overview
This unit provides an opportunity to develop an extended creative writing project in your preferred and strongest genre and form. It will allow you to plan and propose an extended piece of creative work through a series of intensive highly participatory tutorials in collaboration with peer critique groups. Though the major covers a range of writing genres, you choose your strongest genre and write with both breadth and complexity. This unit supports you to demonstrate that you have developed a sophisticated voice or style over the three years of study. The piece of work commenced here will continue to be built on in KWB326 Creative Writing Project 2.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a plan for a sustained piece of creative writing.
- Write a sustained piece of creative writing to industry standards.
- Write and rewrite collaboratively with peer critique groups.
- Analyse and provide sophisticated editorial input on manuscript drafts across a wide range of genres and styles.
Content
This unit includes face-to-face and online lectures and tutorials designed to facilitate the development of professional reading, editing and writing skills. The unit will assist you to plan, develop, research, write, edit and submit a sustained creative piece, to a professional standard.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be taught through an interdependent mixture of:
- formal classroom Writing and Reading Discussion Groups
- 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
There are two assessment items for this unit. The first is a series of peer reviews that are designed to develop your abilities to iteratively improve your own creative work. The second assessment item is a project proposal and substantial piece of creative writing.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Peer Critique
Submission Development - A series of activities at key points in the semester designed to develop your abilities to iteratively improve your own creative work, to effectively critique other's work, and to enact strategic plans in the submission of professional standard manuscripts.
- You will be placed into groups for 3 editing rounds. At the end of each round you will submit reviews and assign a grade for each of your group members. At the end of the semester you will receive a grade which is the average of all grades given to you by your peers for all 3 editing rounds. The assessment includes both formative and summative feedback.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Sustained Creative Work
A project proposal and a sustained creative written piece, or agreed equivalent such as a coherent collection of poetry or short stories, submitted to industry standards for an unsolicited manuscript.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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 are requested to visit and review the Health and Safety information on the HiQ web pages (CIESJ Tier 1 HSE requirement).
Resources
Required resources for this unit will be provided via the unit's Canvas site
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 QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
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.
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 - 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: ULO2 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO4 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO3