Writing 3: Your Own Portfolio

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Level:: 3 (HE6)
Credits:: 60
Length:: 15 months approx.
8hrs per week
Cost:: £745
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Course Overview

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

By the end of this course in poetry, you will have developed and extended your creative strategies. Through looking critically at your work and at your own creative processes, you will become more aware of these processes and more disciplined. You will also be writing pieces of poetry from observational notes, writing on a range of subjects and in a range of styles, exploring some powerful themes and experimenting with different forms. You will hone your editing and redrafting skills, develop your understanding of style and vocabulary and extend your knowledge and appreciation of other poets. By the end of the course you will have developed a solid foundation for your future writing and a clear idea of your own creative voice and direction.

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Entering the imagination
Getting inside the subject
Finding the patterns
Rewriting and editing
Building the collection.

The course aims to help you write better poems; look critically at your work and the processes involved in creating it; and gain an insight into the creative processes of other writers.

Five assignments. Students also maintain a learning log.