SEL8678 : Craft: Poetry
SEL8678 : Craft: Poetry
- Offered for Year: 2024/25
- Module Leader(s): Professor Bill Herbert
- Owning School: English Lit, Language & Linguistics
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
Semester 1 Credit Value: | 20 |
ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
European Credit Transfer System | |
Pre-requisite
Modules you must have done previously to study this module
Pre Requisite Comment
N/A
Co-Requisite
Modules you need to take at the same time
Co Requisite Comment
N/A
Aims
To extend and nuance the range of skills and subject matter of students writing creatively and to encourage formal and thematic experimentation, while allowing students the framework in which to reflect critically and creatively on their own and other people’s writing.
Outline Of Syllabus
Over the course of taught sessions and independent research, students will look at a range of literary devices in order to develop their understanding of the tools and resources available to them as writers. Students will explore potential sources and resources, experiment with a variety of poetic forms and structures, and have the chance to move towards developing their work in response to talks and seminars and independent study and practice.
Learning Outcomes
Intended Knowledge Outcomes
Students will acquire and strengthen their knowledge of a range of forms, techniques and thematic concerns and of a variety of perspectives from which these can be approached.
Intended Skill Outcomes
Students will develop the confidence to experiment with their own work and to produce considered and disciplined revision of their work. They will learn to read and evaluate the work of other writers and to evaluate and develop their own writing in the context of this, as well as to receive and incorporate constructive feedback.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 9 | 2:00 | 18:00 | N/A |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Drop-in/surgery | 1 | 0:30 | 0:30 | N/A |
Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 181:30 | 181:30 | N/A |
Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
Through close reading, discussion, writing exercises, and feedback received in skills practice sessions, students will apply their knowledge of a range of forms, techniques and thematic concerns to their own writing practice. They will incorporate the skills of revision, self-evaluation, and selection into the preparation of their final creative portfolio.
Module talks (and/or online equivalent), skills practice sessions (which will also incorporate an element of peer-to-peer feedback), and independent study will provide the opportunity for close scrutiny of texts and detailed exploration of the strategies used by a variety of writers, as well as general discussion of ideas regarding the processes of writing and critical thinking.
Reading Lists
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Other Assessment
Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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Portfolio | 1 | A | 100 | The assessment will be comprised of a mixed portfolio of creative and essayistic work |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Students demonstrate acquisition of knowledge and skills, as well as understanding of their own creative practice, through the submission of their portfolio.
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- SEL8678's Timetable
Past Exam Papers
- Exam Papers Online : www.ncl.ac.uk/exam.papers/
- SEL8678's past Exam Papers
General Notes
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