Units
Creative Writing: the Short Story
Unit code: KWB104
Contact hours: 3 per week
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
The unit covers the writing of the short story in detail.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 2 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
This unit is a key unit in the Creative Writing programs, including the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing, as well as an elective for those of you interested in improving their creative writing and/or pursuing a creative writing minor. This unit explores the acquisition of skills in professional creative writing. It provides techniques in creative writing and editing, including some guidance in publishing. The emphasis is on literary writing, in particular the short story, and on writing to industry standards as well as for creative pleasure. Rereading, editing and rewriting are viewed as integral to the writing process.
This unit is concurrently taught with KWP403, with appropriate learning outcomes tailored for undergraduate students.
Aims
This unit aims to provide you with an understanding of short story writing, offering a framework and strategies for the development of a short story and the perspective of the creative writing practitioner, and to improve writing, oral and analytical skills that are transferable and appropriate to lifelong learning.
Objectives
1. Write professionally, applying your creative and analytical abilities to the process of writing short narrative in particular.
2. Provide and respond to constructive peer feedback both orally and in writing.
3. Apply your professional skills, including mastery of language, literary forms and techniques to your creative writing.
Content
The unit addresses content such as and includes lectures and tutorials designed to equip you with the ability to structure and write a short narrative. In particular, it looks at the various elements of the short story - such as point of view, structure and characterisation - in terms of creative writing practice.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
There is a combination of lectures/tutorials with writing workshops and individual consultations. There is an emphasis in this unit on formative as well as summative assessment/evaluation; this is achieved through workshops and by in-class writing for which you receive feedback but are not assessed towards their final grade, as well as by participation in small peer editorial groups. Formative learning is also achieved by individual consultations with each of you to give feedback on the first submission of your major assignment.
Assessment
LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.
Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback from your tutor and peers in tutorials, and you will also receive a one-on-one consultation with your tutor after the first story submission in order to discuss it. Weight: 0%
Assessment name:
Introduction and Short Story
Description:
(Formative and Summative) Introduction and Short Story. Provide: Introduction Length: 200 words Story Length: 1500 - 1700 words. Introductory level.
Relates to objectives:
1, 2 & 3
Weight:
30%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Mid Semester
Assessment name:
Rewritten or Short Story
Description:
(Summative) Rewritten or new Short Story Length: 1500 - 1700 words. Advanced level.
Relates to objectives:
1 & 3
Weight:
40%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
End Semester
Assessment name:
Peer Review
Description:
(Formative and Summative) A multi-phase assessment based on 3 requirements:
1. submission of own work for peer assessment
2. submission of editorial feedback to peers in workshops and the online forum
3. submission of a short editorial response to one other student's work in progress, 300 words.
Relates to objectives:
1 & 3
Weight:
30%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Group with Individual Component
Due date:
End Semester
Academic Honesty
QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.
A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.
Resource materials
There is no set text for this unit.
Recommended References
Grenville, K. (any edition) The Writing Book, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Halpern, D. (Ed.) (2002) The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Short Stories,
Penguin, Sydney. (The American edition is called The Art of the Tale).
Risk assessment statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Last modified: 02-Apr-2013
