This is a participatory module, which very much depends on what the students bring with them, in terms of both work and attitude. The aim is to see work as improvable and to help students advance and try out different techniques for editing and rewriting.
Students will learn to:
Give useful feedback
Receive useful feedback
Work on editing and redrafting
Try different approaches to editing, drafting and writing
Work with a group of peers on creative best practice
Encourage a mutually supportive atmosphere to emerge among creative writers
See writing as a process, and as improvable
To see the innate qualities of writing as well as the aspects which need attention
There is no set reading list for this module, though handouts and guidance will be given on being part of a workshop.
The assignment will be a piece, or pieces of creative work of any genre, or genres, with a commentary which reflects upon working in a workshop environment and how the work has, directly or indirectly, been created in process and/ or in workshopping - total word count 5,000.
- Module Supervisor: Holly Pester