ALW101 - Writer's Toolkit: Craft and Creativity

Unit details

Note: You are seeing the 2018 view of this unit information. These details may no longer be current. [Go to the current version]
Year2018 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit chair:

Trimester 1: Antonia Pont

Trimester 3: Antonia Pont

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

This unit is only available to students enrolled in a Faculty of Arts and Education course or D311, D312, D313, D326, D346, D347, D370, D391

Incompatible with:

Nil

Contact hours:

Trimester 1

Campus: 1 x 1 hour Class per week, 1 x 2 hour Seminar per week

Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin

 

Trimester 3

Campus : Intensive mode - up to 4 hours of Seminars in weeks 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11

Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin

Content

This is a unit of interrelated reading and writing. Students will lay the basis of good editorial and writing practice. Computer, language and research skills are developed to underpin work in scriptwriting, non-fiction and fiction. Set texts are used to demonstrate basic expository and narrative techniques.

Assessment

Sketching with words 500 words 10%

Memory as seed 1500 words 40%

Place as encounter 1500 words 40%

Participation and seminar discussion 10%

Unit Fee Information

Click on the fee link below which describes you: