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Literature and Writing in Professional Contexts
Postgraduate | MAQ-ENGX8075 | 2020
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 18 weeks
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Literature and Writing in Professional Contexts
About this subject
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Conceptualise and conduct advanced research within an approved area.
- Plan and produce a major project within an approved area of activity and research.
- Apply refined technical skills and specialist knowledge within a sustained major work appropriate to specific readerships or community contexts.
- Initiate and collaborate with others in planning and executing an industry based or critically informed project
- Create and curate a digital portfolio that reflects upon their learning.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
The unit promotes professional writing and research skills through the production of scholarly and/or creative projects in the fields of Children's Literature and Creative Writing. You demonstrate the advanced learning, skills and knowledge gained in your Masters program studies through the application of your learning in the writing or production a Major Work.In consultation with the unit convenors, each student selects one of three modules for their Major Work, either: a research-based Journal Article for a peer-reviewed journal; designing a community or school-based creative writing or literature/children's literature studies Curriculum; or undertaking a Professional Context Project. Involvement in industry is encouraged. Past Professional Context projects have included production of an issue of The Quarry, a podcast series, and public literary event. The Major Work will complement and extend your individual research and vocational aims and utilize your Masters studies. Assessment is based on your online participation in discussions and peer review, written learning reflection tasks, the conceptualization and planning of your Major Work, and documented completion of the Major Work. The unit is offered online, with discussions, feedback and resourcing of student projects supported online by the convenors.
- Participatory task (10%)
- Major project (50%)
- Portfolio (30%)
- Proposal/Project Plan (10%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
Permission by special approval and admission to Master of Creative Writing
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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