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ENG-20074 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 12 May 2024

ENG-20074 - Writing Genre
Coordinator: James Sheard Tel: +44 1782 7 33302
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None


Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

Not all writing is 'literary' - in fact, most popular and best-selling work is 'genre'. This module allows you to be honest about the books and poems you love, without regard to their 'literary' value, and to see how you can experiment creatively with these forms of writing.
Lectures and reading groups look at a range of genre 'practices', and develop your understanding of how they work - tropes, forms, techniques, approaches. You are encouraged to try out different types of genre writing, to see how they match with your own creative writing, which will receive peer and tutor feedback in workshops.

Aims
To develop students' understanding of the characteristics of narrative form, genre and poetic mode.
To show how the understanding of these characteristics can be employed to control the structures of pieces of creative writing.
To provide students with an awareness of the developed traditions of genre and mode through focused writerly readings of literary text.
To provide students with an awareness of the traditions and tropes of the literary context of their own writing.
To strengthen the students' engagement with creative as well as critical practice and to further explore the relationship between the two.

Intended Learning Outcomes

reflect creatively and critically on the distinctive tropes and techniques of a genre or mode: 1,2
write creative pieces that demonstrate an engagement with the critical questions raised on the module: 1
reflect critically on the creative practice (of themselves and others): 2
engage critically and creatively with the work of authors whose practice is relevant to one's own: 2
convert an understanding of technique into an ability to deploy technique in one's own practice: 1
demonstrate analytic skills - close reading, description and analysis of form and technique - using appropriate literary terminology: 2

Study hours

Lectures: 6 hours
Small Reading Groups: 6 hours
Exercise Workshops: 6 hours
Open Advice Sessions: 5 hours
Peer Review Workshops: 12 hours
Feedback: 1 hour
Individual study: 72 hours
Workshop/Assessment preparation: 42 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Portfolio weighted 75%
A Portfolio of Creative Writing
A collection of original writing in Prose (1500 words); or Poetry (5-6 poems) demonstrating a creative engagement with a particular genre/mode.

2: Commentary weighted 25%
A Commentary on the Portfolio
A 500 word reflective commentary accounting for the creative and critical practices which underly the portfolio work.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 12 May 2024