Assessment:
Essay - 1,200 - 2,000 words (Week 8)
Creative Portfolio - 2,000 - 2,500 words (Week 13)
2020 Lectures and Tutorials
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand and engage with your chosen genre.
- Critically understand a professional writer's writing praxis.
- Critically understand your own writing praxis.
- Produce a portion of an original work.
Readings
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- Week 2 - Genre and ideology
- Week 3 - The Road
- Week 4 - Sci-fi, origins and innovations
- Week 5 - Crime writing and politics
- Week 6 - Historical fiction and the problem of truth
- Week 7 - Fantasy and escapism
- Week 8 - The bestseller as a genre
- Week 9 - Worldbuilding
- Week 11 - Writing for emotional impact
- Week 12 - bookcovers and wattpad
Lesson Plans