ENMPD1-Project Development 1

Module Provider: English Literature
Number of credits: 20 [10 ECTS credits]
Level:7
Terms in which taught: Autumn term module
Pre-requisites:
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Current from: 2023/4

Module Convenor: Prof Peter Robinson
Email: P.Robinson@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

By means of a weekly two-hour workshop, this module will provide you with the opportunity to conceive, research and develop a creative writing project in your chosen genre. This work, in its final state, will form part of your dissertation portfolio. You will keep notes of weekly responses to work in progress by fellow students, and your responses to their critical assistance with your own. These notes will form part of a working journal in which you will reflect—taking into account influences, research, and reading—upon the conception, planning, and initial development of your creative project. You will also have four opportunities to meet your academic mentor for your project, who will also be your workshop leader. Along with the working journal, you will produce an outline plan and a bibliography of research towards your project.

Aims:

To provide you with detailed knowledge and understanding of a range of issues in the practice of creative writing, and constructive criticism both of others and yourself, giving a sense of key issues and how to develop creative writing and criticism in the area.



To provide you with detailed knowledge and understanding of a number of different conceptual and critical methods related to the processes involved in creative writing and genres of writing at the present time.



To encourage you to analyse and question your own and others’ assumptions about creative and critical approaches in all of your work.

Assessable learning outcomes:

By the end of the module you will be expected to:

—employ skills of creative and critical imagination and analysis to demonstrate understanding of the writings you and your peers have planned and developed

—identify and engage creatively and critically with a number of different approaches relating to contemporary writing

—consider and evaluate ways in which your own and your peers’ works in progress may express and respond to contemporary social, cultural and historical conditions

—construct and articulate coherent creative projects and critical arguments in speech and writing

Additional outcomes:

The module will encourage you: to develop their oral communication skills through discussions in workshops; think critically both within and across disciplines; to question your own assumptions and arguments, as well as those of others, including your peers and workshop-leader; to provide collaboratively constructive criticism of others’ creative projects and to respond creatively to criticisms offered for your own developing work.

Outline content:

The exact contents of the module will be settled in discussion with those enrolled so as to take account of your particular projects in this large and open field. The module’s primary materials will vary from year to year, and individual to individual, depending on choices of genre and approach.

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:

The module consists of ten weekly seminars, each two hours in length. Each seminar will involve discussion of texts or other materials that have been prepared in advance by the writers. The module teacher will also be available for four consultations with you on a one-to-one basis to discuss your work and the progress of the module as a whole.

Contact hours:

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Seminars	20
Project Supervision	4
Guided independent study:
Other	176
Total hours by term	200	0	0
Total hours for module	200

Summative Assessment Methods:

Method	Percentage
Project output other than dissertation	100

Summative assessment- Examinations:

Summative assessment- Coursework and in-class tests:

One portfolio of no more than 5000 words (excluding bibliography) containing: (1) a working journal, (2) an outline project plan, and (3) a bibliography of research undertaken for the project.

Formative assessment methods:

The workshops will provide occasions especially for peer-level feedback, guided by the seminar leader, and in one-to-one supervisions drafts of plans and other materials will be shared for feedback from the project mentor. 

Penalties for late submission:

The below information applies to students on taught programmes except those on Postgraduate Flexible programmes. Penalties for late submission, and the associated procedures, which apply to Postgraduate Flexible programmes are specified in the policy 'Penalties for late submission for Postgraduate Flexible programmes', which can be found here: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/cqsd-old-site-documents/penaltiesforlatesubmissionpgflexible.pdf
The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of five working days;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than five working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/cqsd-old-site-documents/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf
You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Assessment requirements for a pass:

In order to be eligible for the award of the degree, you must obtain a mark of or exceeding 50% for the module.

Reassessment arrangements:

Re-submission of coursework.

Additional Costs (specified where applicable):

Last updated: 14 April 2023