• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Professor Jacob Polley

• 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.

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.

To encourage students to read and consider in depth a range of literary and creative texts concerning the art of writing, and to widen the possibilities of their own writing practice and critical thinking by reflecting on the habits, processes and styles that they observe in their own and other writers’ work.

Outline Of Syllabus

Over the course of taught sessions and independent research, students will look at a range of texts and creative 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 dictions and registers, and have the chance to move towards developing their work in response to lectures and independent study and practice.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Through close reading, discussion, writing exercises, and feedback received in lectures, 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 self-evaluation and selection into the preparation of their final portfolio.

Lectures (and/or online equivalent) 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.

Professional guest speakers will be invited, where possible, to enhance and diversify learning.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Students demonstrate acquisition of knowledge and skills, and further demonstrate their understanding of their own creative practice, through the submitted portfolio.

Reading Lists

• SEL8641's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• SEL8641's Timetable