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.

  • Unit Title

    Writing Prose
  • Unit Code

    WRT3130
  • Year

    2021
  • 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 creative non-fiction. The work of established writers will be the starting point, and students will explore a range of techniques and styles through class exercises and an emerging individual writing practice. Students are expected to develop sustained original creative work, and share drafts of that work with the class.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3253, WRT3113, WRT4113, WRT3213, WRT2213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop a piece of short fiction or creative non-fiction from its inception as notes towards an idea, through the process of drafting to its completion.
  2. Discern and discuss technical elements – such as, stylistic, literary and genre-specific – at work in selected creative texts.
  3. Discuss concepts of social and environmental sustainability in relation to creative writing, including ethics and relevant genre theory.
  4. Evaluate peers' creative works and provide relevant 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; and creative non-fiction.
  2. Identification of formal, structural, linguistic and technical strategies, as well as thematic concerns such as personal and cultural identities, in selected fiction and creative non-fiction.
  3. Peer-reviewing of students’ creative writing.
  4. Sustained writing of a reflective journal.
  5. Writing of original short fiction or creative non-fiction.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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
Portfolio Portfolio 1 (creative writing) W7 1000-1500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction30%
PortfolioCreative writing and journal w13 Creative Writing – 2000-2500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction (cnf) Journal – responses to weekly readings and discussions50%
ParticipationParticipation (individual presentation of 1 page of fiction/cnf draft) 2-12 Presentation of draft, focus question and response to discussion20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Portfolio Portfolio 1 (creative writing) W7 1000-1500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction30%
PortfolioCreative writing and journal w13 Creative Writing – 2000-2500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction (cnf) Journal – responses to weekly readings and discussions50%
ParticipationParticipation (individual presentation of 1 page of fiction/cnf draft) 2-12 Presentation of draft, focus question and response to discussion20%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    Writing Prose
  • Unit Code

    WRT3130
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • 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 creative non-fiction. The work of established writers will be the starting point, and students will explore a range of techniques and styles through class exercises and an emerging individual writing practice. Students are expected to develop sustained original creative work, and share drafts of that work with the class.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3253, WRT3113, WRT4113, WRT3213, WRT2213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop a piece of short fiction or creative non-fiction from its inception as notes towards an idea, through the process of drafting to its completion.
  2. Discern and discuss technical elements – such as, stylistic, literary and genre-specific – at work in selected creative texts.
  3. Discuss concepts of social and environmental sustainability in relation to creative writing, including ethics and relevant genre theory.
  4. Evaluate peers' creative works and provide relevant 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; and creative non-fiction.
  2. Identification of formal, structural, linguistic and technical strategies, as well as thematic concerns such as personal and cultural identities, in selected fiction and creative non-fiction.
  3. Peer-reviewing of students’ creative writing.
  4. Sustained writing of a reflective journal.
  5. Writing of original short fiction or creative non-fiction.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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
Portfolio Portfolio 1 (creative writing) W7 1000-1500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction30%
PortfolioCreative writing and journal w13 Creative Writing – 2000-2500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction (cnf) Journal – responses to weekly readings and discussions50%
ParticipationParticipation (individual presentation of 1 page of fiction/cnf draft) 2-12 Presentation of draft, focus question and response to discussion20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Portfolio Portfolio 1 (creative writing) W7 1000-1500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction30%
PortfolioCreative writing and journal w13 Creative Writing – 2000-2500 words, short fiction or creative non-fiction (cnf) Journal – responses to weekly readings and discussions50%
ParticipationParticipation (individual presentation of 1 page of fiction/cnf draft) 2-12 Presentation of draft, focus question and response to discussion20%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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