Undergraduate Course: Find Your Voice (Course 3) (LLLG07093)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.
Continuation of Course 2 but new students very welcome. Bring a sense of humour, self-discipline and a desire to write. From 'hands-on' stimulating and interactive experiences to all forms of creative writing, the creative process is yours! |
| Course description |
Week 1
Introductory exercises in banning self-censorship sine die; and prompts for writing for Week 2.
Weeks 2 ¿ 10
Guided discussion of students¿ work presented each week. Bring two printed copies. The aim is to share at least one piece from each student per week.
We free wheel through experimental and established form and genre following our own voices while looking at (for example) life-writing, comedy, satire and the surreal. No holds barred.
We look through tension and conflict at reader (or audience) expectation: how to fulfil; when to deny. We explore positive editing (murdering our darlings) and developing ¿rhythm¿ in voice and structure: how to develop the bigger narrative (or dramatic) arc; how to avoid the (merely) episodic to create the organic: the world which continues when the reader has ¿finished¿.
Prompts are always open-ended to allow students to develop their own interests or creative endeavours.
Guidance on publication and performance
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 12 |
| Course Start |
Lifelong Learning - Session 3 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
creative writing portfolio, 100% course work |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| It is intended that by the end of the course students will have achieved a better understanding of their own abilities and why they wish to write, as well as what. Hopefully, some will go on to publish
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Reading List
There are many ¿guides¿ and ¿handbooks¿ to creative writing which you may choose to read from. In general, you should read widely, as you wish, in different genres (novels, stories, scripts and modern/contemporary poetry). You are encouraged to register with the University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Edinburgh Central Library and the Scottish Poetry Library; and to make use of information and advice on book publishing, literary magazines etc. to be found through the Writers and Artists Yearbook and the Scottish Book Trust.
Reading writers¿ autobiographies is particularly recommended. Among such, we could include:
Bennett, A., 1997. Writing Home. London: Faber & Faber.
Dylan, B., 2004. Chronicles. London: Simon & Schuster.
MacDiarmid, H., 1972. Lucky Poet. London: Jonathan Cape.
Neruda, P., 2004. Memoirs. London: Souvenir Press.
Miller,A., 1999. Timebends. London: Methuen Publishing.
Milosz, C., 1992. Native Realm. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Muir, E., 2008. An Autobiography. Edinburgh: Canongate Classics.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Martine Pierquin
Tel: (0131 6)51 1182
Email: m.pierquin@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Zofia Guertin
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Zofia.Guertin@ed.ac.uk |
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