This foundational course introduces students to the major literary genres of poetry, fiction and drama and to the literary techniques essential to success in these genres (including imagery, voice, dialogue, characterization, and narration) as well as to the processes which drive creative productivity. Students will complete original assignments in each of these major genres while learning the procedure for work-shopping each other’s products and the benefits of constructive criticism and revision.
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The lecture I got was quite biased and judged us based on industry levels despite this module being INTRO to creative writing. One good side about this is that the prof gives us back our grades for every assignment which mean I could gladly S U this as many of us received a B and B .
June 3, 2023 -
Fun mod that teaches the basics of prose, poetry and screenplay. There is a need to pick to right tutor however as some of them are more focused on a certain aspect. My tutor was more focused on fiction prose which I was more inclined to so the lessons were focused mostly on fiction writing.
The workload can be quite high as for each section we are required to produce our own writing. So the assignments are writing a prose, some poems and a screenplay. There is also peer reviewing which is interesting as you get to see others writing styles.
November 30, 2022 -
your grades vary widely depending on the tutor you get. the readings are all assigned by the tutor (who may be a prof/ postdoc/ phd student/ masters student/ none of the above) and they pretty much have free rein over what to teach and how to teach. and also how to grade.
i took it last sem with Cat Chong as my tutor (they’re a Medical Humanities PhD candidate) and i happened to really enjoy the readings they chose.
basically you’re graded on 4 assignments: a fiction assignment, a poetry assignment, a multimedia assignment and a reflection (with word counts to hit for each).
as with all good art and creative work, it’s hard to grade, but a tip would be to do your bibliography/ acknowledgments/ referencing very very stringently just so you don’t accidentally get flagged as plagiarising by turnitin, as though you were writing an academic paper (just an ntu policy thing).
of the students in my tutorial group, barely anyone has creative writing experience, and i was the only english student, most other students were STEM students. basically the lowest grade you can get in this course is a B (unless you really put 0 effort in the assignment), but it’s very hard to get an A. so if you’re looking for an easy pass (i.e. sth to S/U) i’d say this is definitely it, and extremely enjoyable too (with no group work). but if you’re looking for something to pull up your GPA, it can take (way) more effort than other BDEs out there.
January 7, 2022
