Units
Stylistics
Unit code: KWB211
Contact hours: 3hr intensive workshop per week, plus self-directed creative practice, plus weekly analysis activities, plus peer reflection activities – ten hours in total.
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
This unit allows students to significantly advance their writing practice and associated critical and editorial skills through close analysis of language-level literary style, as opposed to story-level or narrative concerns. In creative writing advanced stylistics, students will work on unpacking, theorising and then replicating literary techniques used by a wide range of exemplary authors. This unit gives students a unique opportunity to consider and manipulate very specific aspects of their authorial voices, drawing on the field of literary stylistics, the Oulipo movement, reader response theorists, and other author-based literary theories and schools. Intensive studio-based work, self-directed creative practice, guided critical analysis and asynchronous on-line activities characterise the teaching and learning in this unit.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 1 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
This unit offers you an introduction to the field of stylistics and focuses on analysing literary style for practitioners. It aims to give you an opportunity to develop different writing techniques through a closely guided series of writing exercises and theoretical analyses of texts with an emphasis on style and effect. This is an opportunity to develop technique in creative and professional writing at a low, language-oriented level.
Aims
This unit aims to develop writers' awareness of stylistic and technical devices used in creating prose fiction. It aims to help you write and present a portfolio of specifically situated creative works through to publication stage.
Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. demonstrate an applied understanding of a broad range of stylistic and technical devices used in writing and publishing prose fiction
2. analyse critically and engage with stylistic and technical devices used by a wide range of published authors
3. develop and write experimental narrative, including deliberate manipulation of reader experience through critically applied technique
4. apply techniques of rewriting and editing to both fictive and non-fiction narratives
Content
The unit content addresses a mixture of reader response and stylistic/linguistic theory, a series of focused writing exercises designed to strengthen specific prose techniques, advanced narrative technique, and practice-based guided writing.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Classes will comprise a weekly lecture, peer workshops, and online self-directed learning.
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 see the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative written feedback from your tutor after each of the major assessment items. Furthermore, you will receive ongoing formative feedback throughout the semester both on-line and in workshops from your peers and in workshop discussions with your tutor.
Assessment name:
Portfolio
Description:
(Formative and Summative) Portfolio 1: A writing portfolio arising from a series of in-class writing exercises which includes a selected short piece of prose fiction and a reflective analysis of the techniques used. The selected piece and reflection constitutes the assessable component of the portfolio. Length: 1000 words (700 word selected piece of prose, 300 word reflective analysis of the prose).
Relates to objectives:
1, 3, 4
Weight:
40%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Mid-semester
Assessment name:
Portfolio
Description:
(Formative and Summative) Portfolio 2: A writing portfolio arising from a series of in-class writing exercises which includes a selected short piece of prose fiction and a reflective analysis of the techniques used. The selected piece and reflection constitutes the assessable component of the portfolio. Length: 1000 words (700 word selected piece of prose, 300 word reflective analysis of the prose).
Relates to objectives:
1, 3, 4
Weight:
40%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
End of semester
Assessment name:
In-class presentation
Description:
(Summative) An in-class presentation of an analysis of a selected work of prose fiction by a published author. This presentation comprises an analysis of one aspect of style or technique used by the author as demonstrated by a close reading of the author's work. It includes a reader-response or narratological analysis of the impacts of that narrative technique or style.
Relates to objectives:
1, 2
Weight:
20%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Throughout 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 are no required texts.
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: 11-Oct-2012
