Creative writing + reflective statement

Creative writing: Prose. 1750 words + a 300 word reflective statement. Poetry: at least 100 lines + 300 word reflective statement. 10% wiggle room. Penalties for over and under length assignments

Details This assignment requires the submission of creative writing and a short reflective statement. Students must submit, as one document via the Turnitin link for Assignment 1:

1) One piece of writing that you have written and which you may have workshopped. This writing should have been rewritten, and conceptually developed well beyond a writing exercise. Attention must be given to structure and language-use as well as creative ideas. The piece must be based on at least one or more of the course topics or strategies covered to date.

Criteria for the creative writing:

• ·  response to the unit topics and ideas dealt with so far,
• ·  extent of realization of the concept;
• ·  your willingness to re-work and process your writing,
• ·  extent to which you have realised your concept in creative writing,
• ·  language and writing skills
• ·  narrative skills and other concepts pertaining to form and structure

AND

2) A reflective statement on the submitted piece should demonstrate the following criteria:

• ·topic and theoretical or creative writing context you have utilized and how your creative writing emerged from a writing exercise
• ·awareness of your creative ideas and practical writing process
• ·any problems you encountered in the writing process
• ·how you tried to solve them

Word length: Creative writing 1750 words + 300 word reflective statement. Poetry at least 100 lines + reflection 300 words

Critique and analysis

Word length: 400 words

This short prose critique should be written in a thoughtful and analytical way. This is a different discourse to the reflective essay: it is written as a ‘mini essay discussion’, with ideas developed in an argument. The critique must engage with an issue in the chosen reading that is relevant to this unit. You may use any of the readings in the unit, either a literary work (story, poem, essay) or a theoretical work.

Marking criteria:

·  Interpretation, analysis and synthesis of ideas about the reading

- Integration with unit concept(s)

·  Organization and integration of ideas into an argument discourse

·  Writing skills – syntax and grammar, sentence structure, language-use, vocabulary, paragraphing

Marks are given at two intervals: 10% 20 September, 10% 12 November.

Students are expected to attend all classes and attend or listen to all lectures. Absence from seminars will affect participation marks and may result in failure of the unit. If you are sick and can't attend class, please provide medical documentation.

The marks given for participation are for your active participation in seminars and workshop activities, including online participation for external students and where prompted for all students.

This includes:

• uploading your creative writing for workshopping to the website on time by Monday 5 pm latest of the week you are scheduled to workshop for Wednesday and Thursday classes 

and 

• bringing copies of other students’ work, which you have downloaded, printed and read, to class as scheduled for the week;
• bringing a printed copy of your own work to class  when you are scheduled to workshop;
• giving feedback notes and constructive criticism to other students, written on their scripts (this can be done in class when we workshop, but should also be part of your reading their work before class);
• presenting your discussion of the reading selected for you in the week that you are scheduled to do so;
• contributing to class group discussion of the readings each week, having read the readings before the class;
• doing other online tasks as required.

Creative writing + reflective essay.

Prose: Word count 2250 words + reflective essay of 700 words. Poetry: at least 150 lines + reflective essay of 700 words.

 Details

This assignment consists of two parts. Students must submit, as one document via the Turnitin link for Assignment 3:

(1) A substantially developed work of creative writing based on one or several of the unit topics.

The work you submit must relate to unit content, topics and issues. You are encouraged to 'network' several techniques and approaches dealt with in this unit. Your text may include work you have workshopped though you are expected to have developed it substantially and extensively since the workshop, or if not workshopped, from your initial writing draft.

             * Work that has already been submitted for Assignment 1 cannot be included in this assignment.

AND (2) An essay of 700 words on your own creative process in writing your final assignment piece (1)

The essay is self-reflective. It should demonstrate your consideration of theoretical issues and readings and how they contextualise your work, as well as how you have used the unit writing strategies and topics. The essay should also include information about the techniques and working methods used in writing this work. You may use first person. You should not write a literary criticism of your writing, but rather reflect on its making. Use correct referencing for quotations.

Your creative work is assessed on its:

• ·      evident relationship to theoretical issues and material covered in the unit
• ·      realisation of concept/ substantiality
• ·      structure of the whole and its parts,
• ·      techniques in narrative and other writing techniques
• ·      language-use, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, paragraphing
• ·      presentation of the whole assignment

The reflective essay is assessed on its:

• relationship to your creative work, unit topics and other theoretical contexts or readings relevant to its writing
• demonstration of capacity to reflect on your writing
• clarity of writing, writing skills, organisation of ideas