Module Code - Title:
EH6013
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DISSERTATION IN CREATIVE WRITING
Year Last Offered:
2024/5
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The dissertation is a crucial part of the MA, and requires the student to bring together the research strategies, literary analysis, techniques, and conventions of craft acquired through the programme. The student will develop a creative writing portfolio, consisting of 30 poems or pages of poetry OR 15,000 words of fiction OR 15,000 words of nonfiction OR one complete script no longer than 90 pages and no fewer than 60 pages OR a combination of two genres (15 poems or pages of poetry AND/OR 15,000 words of fiction or nonfiction AND/OR dramatic writing of 30-45 pages in length). The dissertation will allow the student to exercise and deepen the craft, technique, literary analysis, and research strategies acquired in the taught portion of the course.
Syllabus:
The dissertation will consist of original creative work that demonstrates the student's mastery of the taught elements of the programme. The dissertation may consist of one genre--poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama--or may combine two. The dissertation strand for each genre is as follows: 30 poems or 30 pages of poetry; 15,000 words of fiction; 15,000 words of nonfiction; one complete script of no more than 90 pages and no fewer than 60.
A multi-genre portfolio of creative work may be submitted, but it may combine only two genres and must consist of 15 poems or pages of poetry, and/or 7500 words of fiction or non-fiction, and/or dramatic writing between 30 and 45 pages in length.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of the dissertation, students should be able to
--develop a coherent portfolio of creative writing;
--integrate conventions of craft and technique to produce original creative work;
--draw upon literary analysis to situate their creative work;
--identify and carry out research specific to creative topics.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of the dissertation, students should be able to
--value self-reflection as a means of deepening imaginative and creative engagement;
--participate in a community of writers.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module is a non-contact module: students will carry out original creative work under the guidance of an assigned advisor.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
(2010)
Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition.
, University of Chicago Press.
William Zinsser (2006)
On Writing Well
, Harper Perennial
Janet Burroway (2010)
Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, 3rd Edition
, Longman
Other Relevant Texts:
David Morley (2007)
The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing
, Cambridge University Press
William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White (1999)
The Elements of Style, 4th Edition
, Longman
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Summer
Module Leader:
sarah.moore@ul.ie