• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Professor Alex Pheby

• Owning School: English Lit, Language & Linguistics
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

To extend and nuance the range of skills and subject matter of students writing creatively and to encourage formal and thematic experimentation, while allowing students the framework in which to reflect critically and creatively, and culturally on their own and other people’s writing.

Outline Of Syllabus

Over the course of taught sessions and scheduled individual tutorials, students will look at a range of literary devices in order to develop their understanding of the tools and resources available to them as writers. Students will explore potential sources and resources, experiment with a variety of dictions and registers, and have the chance to move towards developing their work in response to seminars, tutorials, and independent study and practice.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Through close reading, discussion, writing exercises, and feedback, students will apply their knowledge of a range of forms, techniques and thematic concerns to their own writing practice. They will incorporate the skills of revision, self-evaluation, and selection into the preparation of their final creative portfolio.

Through workshops and exercises, students will become familiar with a range of creative techniques.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

A 4,000 word portfolio

Reading Lists

• SEL8677's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• SEL8677's Timetable