Module: Reading like a Writer: Craft & Creativity

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Reading like a Writer: Craft & Creativity
Module Code	EL533 (ITS) / LIT1045 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	English
Module Co-ordinator	Darran McCann
Module Teachers	Kit Fryatt
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	30
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

Learning Outcomes

1. Analyse literary texts from a craft-based perspective.
2. Reflect in an informed and contextualised way on theories of literary influence and originality.
3. Describe and evaluate a variety of ways in which literary texts are in dialogue with one another within recognised literary groupings and schools, historically and cross-culturally.
4. Apply the insights gained into other writers’ techniques to their own compositional practice.
5. Show knowledge of literary cultures outside the academy and explore possible participation therein
6. Demonstrate familiarity with a wide range of the forms & genres available to a contemporary writer
7. Demonstrate a mastery of grammar & syntax
8. Demonstrate the ability to identify and manipulate rhetorical tropes in their own work and the work of others

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Total Workload: 0

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Essay	2 essays, c. 3000 words each	100%	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

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