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Unit Summary
Unit aim
Introduces students to a range of different writing strategies and techniques for short creative prose, specifically short fiction, through practical work and a range of readings. Students also develop drafting and self-editing skills.
Unit content
Topic 1: Introducing the short story
Topic 2: Structure
Topic 3: Voice, character, and point of view
Topic 4: Language and style
Topic 5: The development of the short story
Topic 6: The short story in the Americas
Topic 7: Australasian short stories
Topic 8: Genre and the short story
Topic 9: Experimental, new, and subversive writing
Topic 10: Other short forms
Topic 11: Publishing short stories in Australia
Topic 12: Review week
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
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1 | recognise a range of writing strategies and features of the short story form |
2 | demonstrate an ability to devise and develop a short story within the genre of their own choosing |
3 | understand their own writing practice in the context of short fiction forms, genres, and traditions |
4 | reflect critically and constructively on their own and others' writing. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- recognise a range of writing strategies and features of the short story form
- demonstrate an ability to devise and develop a short story within the genre of their own choosing
- understand their own writing practice in the context of short fiction forms, genres, and traditions
- reflect critically and constructively on their own and others' writing.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.