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Archived Version 2021 - 2022
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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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Learning Activities Seminars in which the work of a canonical writer is reviewed from the point of view of informing the student’s own creWorkshops in which members of the writing group present their workSessions moving towards the evolution of a finished workDiscussion of how to present and disseminate a piece of creative writing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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