Postgraduate Course: Elements of Fiction Two (Online Learning) (ENLI11219)
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 2015/16, 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
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Take a creative work from its inception to completion
- Exercise self-critical and editorial skills relating to the drafting and expansion of their own work
- Identify specific areas of research which may be required for the purposes of a creative work
- Demonstrate a facility for economy of expression, an awareness of the fine nuances of language, and acute attention to detail
- Prepare a manuscript for submission to literary agents and/or publishers
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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 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students who complete the course successfully will have attained a broadened awareness of stylistic possibilities in fiction. By practice they will have developed compositional skills in a way that complements more general English studies. They will have learned and established good, independent writing habits which can be maintained beyond the completion of the programme. They will have mastered the crucial distinction between critiquing work and critiquing its author, and be able to articulate and communicate acquired knowledge and skills to others. |
| Keywords | EoF2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dilys Rose
Tel:
Email: drose@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kara Mccormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk |
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