WRIT13014 - Creative Writing Artefact

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 12
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.25
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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 1 - 2025 Profile
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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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Research Proposal 10%
2. Critical Review 40%
3. Creative work 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% response rate.

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.

Source: T1, 2023 SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
The most significant request I can make is for more lectures, and not just focused on assessment queries - that would have been extremely useful.
Recommendation
Create more topically focussed lectures as relevant and required.
Action Taken
More lectures were included that focused on writing styles and techniques, as well as on assessment queries.
Source: Student Evaluation Data
Feedback
Students would like more examples of different styles of completed creative artefacts, or published stories that reach the 10000-word count
Recommendation
More examples of different creative artefacts and/or published stories that reach the 10000-word count will be included as exemplars for student reference.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Evaluation Data
Feedback
Students would appreciate more opportunities for peer interaction
Recommendation
More student interaction will be included in the form of two additional Zoom Workshop Sessions over the course of the term.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a systematic and coherent knowledge of creative writing stylistic principles in one or more genres
  2. Incorporate advanced stylistic and technical concepts to produce a creative writing artefact that reflects a high-level synthesis and application of various writing skills
  3. Apply critical reflective practice in objectively tracking the development of the creative artefact over time.

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Research Proposal •
2 - Critical Review •
3 - Creative work • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Communication • • •
2 - Problem Solving •
3 - Critical Thinking • •
4 - Information Literacy •
6 - Information Technology Competence •
8 - Ethical practice • •
9 - Social Innovation •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Research Proposal • • •
2 - Critical Review • • •
3 - Creative work • • •