| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Advanced Writing Modes and Genres |
| Unit ID: | BAWRT2003 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (BAWRT3003) |
| ASCED: | 109999 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit is designed as an intermediate-level study of the theory and practice of writing and provides students with the opportunity to consolidate, apply, and further develop previously attained skills and critical approaches to creative writing through engaging with more advanced topics selected by the unit coordinator. Through close reading of a series of exemplary creative texts and through engagement with relevant critical readings and their own research, students will consider the critical and theoretical aspects of various writing techniques, styles, modes and genres as a means of advancing and better understanding their own writing practice throughout the course The unit topics may consider the nature of certain literary forms and the cross-pollination between and amongst genres; students might study a range of writing styles, genres, and conventions, or the unit may focus on one genre in particular. Students will be encouraged to critically evaluate the cultural and creative apparatuses of creative writing production in relation to mode and/or genre, and professional practice, and they will have the opportunity to acquire advanced skills for publication of creative work. This is an intermediate-level workshop course where students will be required to demonstrate a high level of workshopping and peer-review skills |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Identify the characteristics of various modes and genres of creative writing. |
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| K2. | Recognise and critically evaluate the cultural and creative apparatuses of creative writing production in relation to mode and/or genre, industry, and professional practice. |
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| K3. | Extend understanding of the socio-historical, and aesthetic and/or political frameworks within which writing takes places. |
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| K4. | Extend awareness of the context and requirements for publishing professional-level work. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Demonstrate proficiency with various creative writing techniques. |
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| S2. | Acquire skills towards publication of creative work. |
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| S3. | Develop a mode of autonomous practice. |
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| S4. | Demonstrate literacy skills. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply a proficient level of professional practice. |
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| A2. | Demonstrate synthesis of theory and practice and critical awareness of the ethical, political, social and cultural possibilities of creative writing production in Australia and globally. |
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| A3. | Demonstrate a proficient level of editing, peer-review, and workshopping skills. |
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| A4. | Present a proficient level of skill in selected modes and genres of writing. |
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| A5. | Produce original creative writing that is potentially of publishable standard. |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include:
1. Selected Fiction Genres (such as science fiction, crime writing, comedy, fantasy and/or magical realism, etc.)
2. Writing Modes
3. Selected Authors
4. Case studies pertaining to particular literary works or specific writing techniques (such as point of view or the representation of time)
5. The relationship between a text’s philosophical foundation - what it thinks about, the aspects of the world that it most closely engages with - and its formal/technical innovations
6. The aesthetics of literature
7. Ekphrasis
8. Ficto-criticism
9. Postmodernism
10. Scriptwriting
11. Memoir & Autobiography
12. The relationship between the construction of authorial 'identity' and its reception
13. Formal and ethical issues raised within certain genres and the intermingling between fiction and non- fiction
14. Ethical, practical and theoretical matters such as censorship, national identity through public policy on literature
15. The role of the editor and publisher
16. Workshopping |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K3, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3 | Students will regularly engage in discussion on the forums, undertake set weekly activities/exercises and post drafts for at least five of these during the semester, as well as participate in workshopping in the final weeks of the course. | Participation | 10-20% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S4, A1, A2 | Students will write a critical exegesis-style reflective paper in response to a relevant provided guiding question. | Essay | 20-40% | | 3. | K1, K2, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A4 | Students will submit a short creative piece based on a related set of activities provided by the unit coordinator. | Creative Writing Exercise | 20-30% | | 4. | K1, K2, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 | Students will submit a polished piece of relevant writing based on their workshopping of an earlier draft (which must also be submitted along with the final version). The piece will also be accompanied by an exegesis explaining the various creative decisions involved in crafting the work. | Creative Writing Piece | 30-50% |
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