Overview
This unit requires you to write a substantial creative piece called a 'creative artefact.' This piece might be a novella, a group of short stories, a screenplay, a script, or group of plays, a suite of poems, a portfolio of works of various genres, a flash fiction series, or some other genre, or any other approved mix. You will negotiate your creative artefact with a supervisor and produce a 'proposal' stating the literary intentions for your creative writing project, including a rationale. Your creative artefact will be expected to reflect a high-level synthesis and stylistic application of the writing skills you have acquired through the earlier units in the major. This will require writing a weekly critical reflection in parallel to track the development and progress of your creative artefact over time. You will produce a substantial body of work in creating your creative artefact.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: WRIT11023 WRIT11025 WRIT12010 WRIT13013
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2027
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Correspondence
Students were unsure about correct referencing for personal communication materials (i.e. family postcards, diary/journal entries, archival records)
Provide students with examples, overviewing how to correctly reference sources such as family postcards, family/personal correspondence, historical diary/journal entries, and genealogical/archival records using Harvard Style Referencing.