The Creative Artefact: Publication Folio B
Overview
This unit allows students to develop advanced writing techniques and creative artefact planning skills through the production of a major piece of work for publication. It will also extend students’ knowledge about a range of writing genres and insights into the writing process. It exposes students to the many different approaches to the practice of writing by critically appraising a range of writing practitioners and published works. It will also further develop and apply critical, theoretical and reflective understandings through the frame of practice-led research to assist in the development of a student’s own folio of original work.
Requisites
24-November-2024
24-November-2024
30-November-2025
30-November-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Evaluate and critically reflect on a range of complex creative techniques, methodologies, and theoretical approaches to undertaking and completing a substantial research-based project
- Demonstrate a high level of creative and practical skill, including peer-based analysis, in the staged and autonomous production of their chosen form of artefact, from outline to practice-led research, to structural development, to finished prose
- Generate a substantial research-based creative project, and produce and evaluate reflexive theorisations about their practice and project and the practice and projects of others
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Online Class | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
| Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 9.50 | 12 weeks | 114 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Discussion Threads | Individual | 40% | 1,2,3 |
| Written Assignment | Individual | 60% | 1,2,3 |
Content
- Strategies of production for long creative works
- Novel outline planning techniques
- Editing Techniques
- Workshopping tools and approaches
- Advanced tactics for evaluating and implementing feedback
- Graduate Attribute: Communication Skills - Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute: Teamwork Skills - Collaboration and negotiation
- Graduate Attribute: Digital Literacies  - Information literacy
- Graduate Attribute: Digital Literacies  - Technical literacy
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Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.