| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Advanced Writing Modes and Genres |
| Unit ID: | BAWRT3003 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (BATCC1001 or BAWRT1001 or BAWRT1002 or LITCR1001 or LITCR1002) (At least 30 credit points from BATCC or BAWRT or LITCR or VCHAT subject-area at 2000-2999 level) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (BAWRT2003) |
| ASCED: | 109999 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit is designed as an upper-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 course 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 topic 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 advanced-level workshop unit 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: No |
| 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. | Evaluate the characteristics of various modes and genres of creative writing. |
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| K2. | Appraise 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 mastery of various creative writing techniques. |
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| S2. | Acquire advanced skills for publication of creative work. |
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| S3. | Develop a mode of autonomous practice. |
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| S4. | Demonstrate high-level literacy skills. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply an advanced 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 high level of editing, peer-review, and workshopping skills. |
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| A4. | Present an advanced level of skill in selected modes and genres of writing. |
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| A5. | Produce original creative writing of publishable standard. |
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| Unit Content: |
•Selected Fiction Genres (such as science fiction, crime writing, comedy, fantasy and/or magical realism, etc.)
•Writing Modes
•Selected Authors
•Case studies pertaining to particular literary works or specific writing techniques (such as point of view or the representation of time)
•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
•The aesthetics of literature
•Ekphrasis
•Ficto-criticism
•Postmodernism
•Scriptwriting
•Memoir & Autobiography
•The relationship between the construction of authorial 'identity' and its reception
•Formal and ethical issues raised within certain genres and the intermingling between fiction and non- fiction
•Ethical, practical and theoretical matters such as censorship, national identity through public policy on literature
•The role of the editor and publisher
•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 unit. | 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, A3, A4, A5 | Students will submit a short creative piece based on a related set of activities provided by the unit coordinator or lecturer | 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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