Module: CWR5102-20 Writing For Young People Reading as Writers

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: tbc

Module Tutor Contact Details: tbc

1. Brief description and aims of module:

Students will be encouraged to read as writers and explore their own creative writing in response to their reading, experimenting with voice, subject matter and readerships. Close analysis and discussion of texts together with editing and redrafting of your own work will be important parts of the process.

2. Outline syllabus:

You will examine the context and contemporary examples of writing for young people, and explore a variety of forms and genres in weekly seminar workshops.

The workshops will:

• focus on the your creative writing, set in the context of the history and current state of writing for young people

• introduce, through lectures and seminar discussion, a variety of forms (such as the picture-book, chapter book) and genres (such as humour, historical fiction, teenage romance, fantasy, science fiction)

• invite all students to experiment with their own writing for young people in response to texts they have read

• set up discussion in large and small groups & exercises to encourage research and redrafting

• expect all students to read widely, including non 'literary' material, such as comics/graphic novels and to re-examine their own childhood reading (and, for some, that of their own children)

3. Teaching and learning activities:

You will attend seminar-workshop for three hours each week. You will have the opportunity to read and revise your own and each other’s work in response to peer feedback.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: The Critical Commentary submission (1500 words)

• % Weighting: 30%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: The Creative Folder (3500 words)

• % Weighting: 70%