SEL8712 : Creative Writing: Workshop 1
- Offered for Year: 2025/26
- Module Leader(s): Professor Alex Pheby
- Co-Module Leader: Professor Sinéad Morrissey
- 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 2 Credit Value: | 20 |
ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
European Credit Transfer System |
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 scheduled individual tutorials, 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 dictions and registers, and have the chance to move towards developing their work in response to seminars, tutorials, and independent study and practice.
The module will cover different fields of writing. Students will be allocated to the seminar group that reflects their preference.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 179:40 | 179:40 | N/A |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 10 | 2:00 | 20:00 | Small group teaching |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Drop-in/surgery | 1 | 0:20 | 0:20 | One-to-one |
Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
Through close reading, discussion, writing exercises, and feedback received in workshops, lectures and tutorials, 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.
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 | 2 | A | 100 | A mixed portfolio of creative and essayistic work. The submission should not normally exceed 4000 words. |
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 of creative and essayistic work.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- SEL8712's Timetable