Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2019-2021
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

EGL122 Writing and Creativity

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Learning outcomes

1.
Discuss and/or reflect in your journals on a range of relevant creative writing strategies and techniques used in the texts in the unit reader.
2.
Apply to your own writing project, relevant approaches to researching and drafting suggested by texts in the unit reader.
3.
Apply to your own writing project effective details of characterization and setting.
4.
Apply to your own writing project, relevant techniques of narrating, voice and point of view.
5.
Participate in constructive criticism of own and peers’ creative work.
6.
Communicate effectively in written and oral work.
7.
Apply to your own writing project, relevant approaches to revising and editing suggested in texts in the unit reader.
8.
Complete an original, imaginative, well-crafted and presented story approximately (and no more than) 3,000 words long.

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Additional information

Unit content:

Fiction writers on writing; writing project process and planning; story, narration, point of view, voice; characterisation; intertextuality; theme; details; closure; writing about loss and history; revision and editing.