Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
Future Students - Courses
Duration
Contact Hours
Campus
Prerequisite
Corequisite
12 weeks or equivalent
3 Hours per Week
Lilydale
LPW500 Critical Friends: The real and virtual support of writers
Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points
A unit in the Graduate Diploma of Arts (Writing) and Master of Arts (Writing)
This unit focuses upon the production of a writing folio in the student's chosen stream of creative, business, research or curriculum writing. This unit will: Address styles of presentation. Enable student writers to understand their craft through reading within cultural and critical theories of textuality and discourse such as postmodernism, feminism, post-colonialism, and narrative theories. Allow student writers to act as readers through investigating theories of textuality and discourse. Allow students to select their area of interest and practice writing to build up their folios. Allow students to share their writing with students. Facilitate deeper understanding of theories of textuality and discourse and to relate these to their own writing processes.
Virtual lectures, virtual tutorials, electronic media, reading and practical exercises and e-tutors, e-mentors and e-peer groups.
Writing folio 60%, Participation in weekly Discussion Threads 40%
Critical and cultural theories The Hypothetical as a business tool Feminist reading of Henry Lawson Feminist reading of Barbara Baynton Obscure objects of desire: Literature and Media Studies International Writing Writing in a global culture Indigenous writing Prize-winning writing
Arnold, J. 2007 Practice Led Research: A dynamic way to knowledge, Rock View Press: Melbourne. Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G and Tiffin, H., 2002. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents). London: Routledge. Bird, C 1988, Dear Writer, Fitzroy, Vic: McPhee Gribble/Penguin. Brande, D & Gardner, J 1981, Becoming a Writer, San Francisco: J.P. Tarcher. Frow, J. 2005. Genre. Routledge. U.K. Goldberg, N. 1998, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Boston: Shambhala Publications. Hunt, C. 2000. Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Kundera, M. 2005. The Art of the Novel. New York: Grove Press. Norris, C. 2007. Fiction, Philosophy and Literary Theory. Will the real Saul Kripke please stand up? London: Continuum International Publishing Group. The Macquarie Dictionary. The Macquarie Thesaurus. The Macquarie website: http://www.macnet.mq.edu.au Strunk, W, The Elements of Style (any recent edition) or online version: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ Turner. B. 2009. The Writers Handbook 2009: The Complete Guide for all Writers, Publishers, Editors, Agents and Broadcasters. 22nd edition. London: Palgrave-Macmillan. And the following electronic resources: Write4Kids: http://write4kids.com/ Hypertext, Cybernetics, Cyborgs and Virtual Realities: http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/digitalmedia/ Stories: com. http://www.stories.com/ Purdue University Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Postmodern Culture: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/index.html Weekly online website links.
