School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Creative Writing
  • Unit Code

    WRT2213
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

This unit develops ability in the writing of literary short fiction and poetry. The work of established writers will be the starting point for workshops in which students explore a range of techniques and styles through class exercises and a developing individual writing practice. Students are expected to develop sustained original creative work, and share sections of that work with the class.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed one unit in WRT1101; WRT1103

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded {ENG3253, WRT3113, WRT4113, WRT3213}

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop a piece of creative writing from its inception as notes towards an idea, through the process of drafting to its completion.
  2. Discern and discuss technical elements at work in selected creative texts.
  3. Discuss concepts of social and environmental sustainability in relation to creative writing including ethics, eco-fiction, eco-poetry and eco-theory.
  4. Evaluate peers' creative works and provide professional-level feedback using appropriate literary and technical terms.
  5. Write an original creative work suitable for submission to publishers and/or entry in literary competitions.

Unit Content

  1. Study of selected Australian and international: short fiction; extracts from longer fiction; poetry; and prose-poetry, in order to identify particular formal, structural, linguistic and technical strategies, together with thematic concerns such as personal and cultural identities, ethics and sustainability.
  2. Teamwork, analysis and communication skills for peer-workshopping of students' creative writing.
  3. Write short fiction and poetry which demonstrate skills gained through textual analysis and workshops.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops. Tutorials. Textual analysis. Practical emphasis.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCreative project 130%
Creative WorkCreative project 250%
WorkshopWorkshop participation including teamwork and peer evaluation skills20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCreative project 130%
Creative WorkCreative project 250%
ParticipationOnline participation in weekly discussion board forums including teamwork and peer evaluation skills20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Creative Writing
  • Unit Code

    WRT2213
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

This unit supports the development of the creative writing student as they find their own narrative voice and style and includes a nuanced approach to important narrative skills such as dialogue, point of view, setting and characterisation. Students will read work from established writers across a range of genres, with a focus on short fiction, and learn through close critical reading to develop an eye for techniques and strategies they might emulate.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded {ENG3253, WRT3113, WRT4113, WRT3213, CCC3210}

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply various components of literary craft to generate sophisticated creative work.
  2. Critique their own and others' work using advanced reflective practice techniques.
  3. Discuss technical elements at work in selected creative texts.
  4. Write an original creative work suitable for submission to publishers or entry in writing competitions.

Unit Content

  1. Peer review and workshop skills, including analysis and communication skills for development of the work of other student writers.
  2. Study of selected Australian and international short fiction to identify formal, structural and technical strategies, and thematic concerns.
  3. Theoretical concepts related to narrative structure, including innovative and contemporary forms of short fiction.
  4. Write short fiction in response to readings and prompts, which demonstrate skills gained through reading, analysis and workshops.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops. Tutorials. Textual analysis. Practical emphasis.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReviewAnalyse the use of literary craft in short fiction40%
Creative WorkShort fiction project50%
WorkshopReview of peers' and own creative work10%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReviewAnalyse the use of literary craft in short fiction40%
Creative WorkShort fiction project50%
WorkshopOnline participation in review of peers' and own creative work10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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