Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
Future Students - Courses
Duration
Contact Hours
Campus
Prerequisite
Corequisite
12 weeks or equivalent
3 Hours per Week
Lilydale
LPW600 Reading and Writing or equivalent
Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points
A unit in the Master of Arts (Writing)
This unit will: Establish confidence in the writer approaching the blank page Enable writers to reflect meaningfully upon their own work Enable students, where appropriate, to establish an external reference group, e.g. Indigenous writers Encourage writers to produce regularly Develop an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice Will extend the writer’s practical and theoretical knowledge of concepts of genre, enabling an affirmation and/or extension of the chosen genre Develop skills in publishing in traditional print mode and online in print or multimedia modes Provide insights into marketing, including establishing a focus for the chosen genre and an understanding of its viability as a publication
This unit will:
Virtual lectures, virtual tutorials, electronic media, reading and practical exercises and e-tutors, e-mentors and e-peer groups.
Writing Journal 60%, Participation in weekly Discussion Threads 40%
Life as Theatre: The Dramaturge and/as Dramaturgical Analysis Language and Literature and the Un-Named Informant Creativity and Communications Theories Derrida and Difference: Language and Culture Textuality and Discourse and the Writerly Self Writing Indigenous History Meeting the Platypus: Theory and Practise in Writing A Guide to Thesis Writing So You Want to Get Published? The "Death of of the Author: and its Implications
Arnold, J. 2007 Practice Led Research: A dynamic way to knowledge, Rock View Press: Melbourne. Cage, D. & Copess, M. 1994, Get Published: Top Magazine Editors Tell You How, Boston: Henry Holt. Fortune, E. 1991, The Writer’s Workshop, Parabel Place, North Croydon, Vic. Goldberg, N. 1990, Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life, New York: Bantam Books. The Macquarie Dictionary. The Macquarie Thesaurus. The Macquarie website: http://www.macnet.mq.edu.au Marsden, J 1993, Everything I Know about Writing, Port Melbourne: Mandarin. Stein, S 2000, Stein on Writing, Boston: Griffin Trade Paperback. Starkey, D. & Bishop, W. 2006, Keywords on Creative Writing. Logan: Utah State University Press. Strunk, W, The Elements of Style (any recent edition) or online version: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ Ueland, B 1997, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit, San Francisco: Graywolf Press. Weekly hypertext weblinks, including: Hardy, D. E. 1999, Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book: http://textant.engl.unr.edu/grammarbook/title.html Screenwriters Online: http://www.screenwriter.com/insider/news.html Write4kids.com: http://write4kids.com/ Writers Write, The Internet Writing Journal: http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/ Mossman, M 2001, Acts of becoming: Autobiography, Frankenstein, and the postmodern body, Postmodern Culture, 2001;11(3): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmc11.3.html Herman, D 2001, Sciences of the text, Postmodern Culture, 2001;11(3): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v011/11.3herman.html Guay, T 1995, Web Publishing Paradigms: http://www.faced.ufba.br/~edc708/biblioteca/interatividade/web%20paradigma/Paradigm.html Florida Research Ensemble: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/ Hyperhorizons: http://www.duke.edu/%7Emshumate/hyperfic.html
