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Offerings
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING
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Learning outcomes
1.
Discuss literary fiction and creative non-fiction texts in the unit reader
2.
Apply to your own writing some relevant creative approaches to drafting, revising and editing creative fiction and non-fiction texts covered in this unit and the unit reader
3.
Demonstrate in your own writing effective use of sentence, scene, structure, description, imagery, characterisation, and(where relevant) dialogue
4.
Develop fully revised and crafted pieces of engaging and clear creative writing
5.
Understand and apply to your own writing some literary strategies used by writers of creative fiction and creative non-fiction in the unit reader
6.
Communicate effectively in written and oral work
7.
Participate in constructive criticism of your own and peers’ writing
8.
Discuss some of the basic issues of responsibility and ethics relevant to writing creatively
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:Approaches to writing creatively; “sense’ details and imagery; sentence structure; narrative and truth; scene and summary; autobiography; responsibility and ethics; short story structure; dialogue and speech; revision and editing.