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Writing 2: Storylines

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Level:
2 (HE5)
Credits:
60
Length:
12 months approx.
8hrs per week
Cost:
£745
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Course Overview

Course Sample
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Core Requirement for BA Hons Creative Writing
Elective Option for BA Hons Creative Arts*

This course explores writing short fiction and develops your awareness of this highly rewarding genre. It contains an introduction to the art of the short story and presents stories and essays by contemporary writers who also discuss their working methods and techniques. As well as writing your own stories you will be exploring the history, structure and conventions of story writing and you will be reading widely in the genre. You will hone your skills in researching, drafting and editing, in presenting your work and in responding to constructive criticism. You will have considerable flexibility in choosing the style and content of your assignments. We advise taking Writing 1: Starting to Write before embarking on this course, but direct entry is possible for more experienced writers.

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  • The evolution of short fiction
  • Beginnings of the story
  • The first literature
  • Northern Europe and Britain
  • European and classical influences
  • Beginnings of the modern story
  • The twentieth century
  • Publishing and contemporary short fiction
  • Narrative techniques.

The course aims to explore the structure, form, historical context, limitations and strengths of story writing; support students in drafting and editing stories; develop discrimination in terms of form and technique; encourage wide and critical reading in contemporary and earlier short stories.

Five assignments. Students also maintain a learning log.



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