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Critical and Creative Practices: The Writerly Identity

Unit Code: LPW706

Duration	Contact Hours	Campus	Prerequisite	Corequisite
13 week study period	3 Hours per Week	Online

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

A unit in the Master of Arts (Writing)

Aims & Objectives:

In this unit, the student will address a series of key principles which inform the identity and creative practice of the writer including Barthes’ notion of the ‘writerly self’, current understandings of creativity and the processes of creative practice, and constructions of meaning and identity.

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

Articulate an understanding of ‘writerly identity’ in relation to their own work
Understand the notion of subjectivity
Demonstrate an understanding of theories of creativity and creative ‘flow’
Apply processes of reflective practice to their own work
Reflect meaningfully on the work of others
Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice in the production of original work
Demonstrate an understanding of the writer’s position within and beyond ‘creative industries’

Teaching Methods:

This unit is delivered online and includes a range of flexible and multi-modal learning approaches, such as virtual lectures, virtual tutorials, electronic media, set readings for response. The unit Web page provides the following information: interactivities, multimedia links, hypertext links, references and virtual community opportunities and is supported by an online tutor and opportunities for peer mentoring.

Assessment:

Written Assignments 60% - 70%
Participation in Weekly Discussion Threads 30% - 40%

Generic Skills Outcomes:

This unit will provide discipline-based knowledge and professional capabilities and experiences contributing to students’ progress in attaining generic skills such as:

· Analytical skills developed through interactive applied, critical and reflective writing tasks and reviews requiring critical thinking

· Drafting and editing for advanced level written communication

· Communication skills developed through interactive discussion forums and web-based communication

· Ability to work independently, developed through web-based research and online learning, in addition to library research

Content:

· Writerly identity

· Theories of creativity

· Thinking and writing reflexively

· Experiences of creative practice – case studies from the industry

· Alternate forms of creative output

· Voicing marginality

· Subjectivity

· Ethics and the writerly self

References:

Cage, D & Copess, M 1994, Get Published: Top Magazine Editors Tell You How, Henry Holt, Boston.

Fortune, E 1991, The Writer’s Workshop, Parabel Place, North Croydon, Vic.

Goldberg, N 1990, Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life, Bantam Books, New York.

The Macquarie Dictionary

The Macquarie Thesaurus

The Macquarie website: http://www.macnet.mq.edu.au

Marsden, J 1993, Everything I Know about Writing, Mandarin, Port Melbourne.

Stein, S 2000, Stein on Writing, Griffin Trade Paperback, Boston.

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, Graywolf Press, San Francisco

Additional Scholarly Works on Creative Practice:

Brophy, K 1998 Creativity: Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing, Melbourne University Press, Victoria

Goldman, D, Kaufman, P & Ray, M 1993 The Creative Spirit, Plume, New York.

Kolodny, S 2000 The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition, Psychsocial Press, Connecticut

Tighe, C 2005 Writing and Responsibility, Routledge, Oxon

Chang, H 2008, Autoethnography as Method, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

Goodman, R 2009, The Soul of Creative Writing, Transaction Publishers, New Jersey.

Kaufman, J 2009, The Psychology of Creative Writing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Kaufman, J & Beghetto, R, 2009, ‘Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity’. Review of General Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 1, March, Pages 1-12

And the following electronic resources:

Strunk, W, The elements of style, (any recent edition)

The Macquarie Dictionary

The Macquarie Thesaurus

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, 2000, vol 11, no 3, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmc11.3.html

Herman, D. 2001, ‘Sciences of the text’, Postmodern Culture, vol 11, no 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

Bukker Tillibul. http://www.lilydale.swinburne.edu.au/journal