CRWT40290 Line Editing II

Academic Year 2023/2024

This course focuses on students' development as writers of literary prose. Tutors and peers will provide close, frequent reading of and responses to work in progress. The main elements for consideration are;

1. Language, including clarity, vividness, register and diction, avoidance of cliché, grammar, syntax and punctuation.
2. Form, including narrative structure, point of view, voice, dialogue, setting, characterisation, pacing, continuity, timing.
2.Content, including plausibility, consistency, originality of approach, dramatisation.
3. Awareness of reader, including engagement, story-telling, control, tension, resolution.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Students can expect to learn how to edit creative prose effectively, using the criteria established in the course of this module. This ought to apply to all elements of that work:
1. Language, including clarity, vividness, register and diction, avoidance of cliché, grammar, syntax and punctuation.
2. Form, including narrative structure, point of view, voice, dialogue, setting, characterisation, pacing, continuity, timing.
2.Content, including plausibility, consistency, originality of approach, dramatisation.
3. Awareness of reader, including engagement, story-telling, control, tension, resolution.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

240
Total

240
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Students will learn by offering and receiving detailed responses to work in progress; by writing exercises which may be set by the tutor; by set reading and by discussion in workshops. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Portfolio: Students will product a portfolio of 5000 words of literary prose, which may include a reflective essay. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will share and discuss work during seminars and workshops, receiving formative oral and/or written guidance from the tutor. The portfolio is the summative assessment, on which written feedback, in the form of editorial notes and/or critical review, will be offered with the final grade.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
Spring
      
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Mon 14:00 - 15:50