Postgraduate Course: Elements of Fiction Two: Building Up, Cutting Away (Distance Learning) (ENLI11163)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course consists of monthly, synchronous online seminars (webinars), online workshops (writing forums) and individual student/tutor consultations. Webinars will focus on theoretical and reflective exploration of key topics and tailored writing assignments will be set. Asynchronous, tutor- hosted writing forums will take place three times per year. Each will last for twelve days. Students will present and critique work in progress by their peers. Students will also consult five times per annum with a writing tutor and at the end of the year, submit 10,000 words of prose fiction for assessment. |
| Course description |
11. Focus versus Scope: The Novella
12. Linked Stories/Novels in Stories
13. Structures (s) Building up/Cutting Away
14. Pacing, Placing and Time Management
15. What is Style?
16. Two Heads: Collaboration and Co-Authorship
17. An Old, Old Story: Retellings
18. What You Don¿t Know, Find Out: Research for fiction
19. Reeling in: Endings
20. Reinstating the Comma: Editing and Proofreading
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 1,
Online Activities 105,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 25,
Formative Assessment Hours 8,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
252 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
10,000 word portfolio (100%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| By its conclusion, all participants should have a clear idea of what to expect, what is expected of them and to be comfortable using the relevant technology.In synchronous webinars, students will be encouraged to consider through reading, discussion and tailored writing assignments, specific elements of fiction and how these might effectively play a part in the integrated whole, whether this be flash fiction, a short story, a novella or novel. Though all the component parts of a fictional text are co-dependent, for practical purposes webinars will focus on different aspects of fiction in order to learn how best they might be developed and employed.
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Reading List
Atwood, Margaret, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Bell, James Scott, Revision and Self-Editing
Bell, Madison Smartt, Narrative Design: A Writer¿s Guide to Structure
Blake, Carole, From Pitch to Publication
Bloom, Harold, How to Read and Why
Booker, Christopher, Seven Basic Plots Browne & King, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
de Groot, Jerome, The Historical Novel Calvino, Italo, The Literature Machine
Dillard, Annie, The Writing Life
Forster, E.M., Aspects of the Novel
Fuentes, Carlos, This I Believe, an A-Z of a Writer¿s Life
Hoffman, Ann, Research for Writers
James, Henry, The House of Fiction, Essays on the Novel
Kaplan, David, Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction
Kundera, Milan,The Art of the Novel
Lerner, Betsy, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor¿s Advice to Writers
Levi, Primo, Other People¿s Trades
McKee, Robert, Story: Substance, Structure, Style
Peck, John and Coyle. Martin, The Student¿s Guide to Writing: Spelling, Punctuation and
Grammar
Strunk, William and White, E.B., The Elements of Style
Wood, James, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will learn to identify and summarise key structural, thematic and linguistic components of a literary text, to synthesise a range of responses to the work, and to compose and structure a coherent and relevant argument. These skills are applicable, in part, to a wide range of written material. |
| Keywords | EoF2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dilys Rose
Tel:
Email: drose@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Sophie.Bryan@ed.ac.uk |
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