Module: Creative Writing Fundamentals: Craft & Technique

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Creative Writing Fundamentals: Craft & Technique
Module Code	EL2070 (ITS) / LIT1005 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	English
Module Co-ordinator	Darran McCann
Module Teachers	Kit Fryatt
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

This course will introduce students to creative writing through a selection of texts both contemporary and from key periods in the history of Literature. We will look at all genres; Poetry, Drama and Fiction. The aim of this course is to encourage students to pursue their own creative writing and for this reason there will be a lot of time and emphasis spent on critiquing the student’s work throughout the semester. We will also look at creative writing practice; drafting, layout, time span, final draft, with an eye to great writer’s work practices and methods and what constitutes great writing as opposed to good writing and bad writing. The ambition would be for the student to have a finished piece of creative writing in a genre of their choosing to an accomplished standard at the end of the module.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the rigour of the creative writing process.
2. Discernment between the excellent and the ordinary in critiquing assigned text.
3. Comprehend the difference between a first draft and a fourth draft.
4. Improve and enhance critical faculty in reading text as creative documents as opposed to academic ones.
5. Explore and understand the paramount position of the imagination in all creative endeavours.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Seminars	24	Seminars
Independent Study	101	Independent Learning
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Seminars in which the work of a canonical writer is reviewed from the point of view of informing the student’s own cre

Workshops in which members of the writing group present their work

Sessions moving towards the evolution of a finished work

Discussion of how to present and disseminate a piece of creative writing

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Essay	Critical response/ essay on a writer of their choice from assigned texts.	20%	n/a
Written Exam	One finished piece of creative writing.	80%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Other Resources

0, 0, Selections from writers such as: Samuel Beckett, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, Harold Pinter, Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy,