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WRIT13014 Creative Writing Artefact
Creative Writing Artefact
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General Information

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

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 3
Credit Points: 12
Student Contribution Band: 7
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).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2025

Online

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).

Class and 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.

Class Timetable

Bundaberg, Cairns, Emerald, Gladstone, Mackay, Rockhampton, Townsville
Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Assessment Overview

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

Assessment Grading

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.

Previous Student Feedback

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 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.

Feedback from 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.

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 Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes
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Intermediate Level
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes

Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Research Proposal - 10%
2 - Critical Review - 40%
3 - Creative work - 50%

Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes

Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Communication
2 - Problem Solving
3 - Critical Thinking
4 - Information Literacy
5 - Team Work
6 - Information Technology Competence
7 - Cross Cultural Competence
8 - Ethical practice
9 - Social Innovation
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes

Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Research Proposal - 10%
2 - Critical Review - 40%
3 - Creative work - 50%
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