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Critical Friends: The Real and Virtual Support of Writers

Postgraduate | SWI-PWR60001 | 2024

Explore the role of a support network in a writer's creative development.Wrestle with the conventions of plot, theme and character. Expose yourself for peer review. Develop feedback for others. Push your work closer to being publication-ready.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Enrol by
19 May 2024
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks
Start dates
26 Feb 2024,
27 May 2024

Price from

$3,630

Upfront cost

$0

FEE-HELP available

Critical Friends: The Real and Virtual Support of Writers

About this subject

  • After successfully completing this subject, students will be able to:

    1. Identify and critically apply the conventions, methodologies, and techniques needed for professionally critiquing pieces of writing
    2. Demonstrate practical skills in evaluating and diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses in their writing and writing practice and in the work and practice of others, and be able to hypothesise solutions to these weaknesses
    3. Plan, research, and produce a report/document that reflects upon and evaluates the challenges and strengths of a piece of writing.

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

  • SWI-WRI-GCE-2024 - Graduate Certificate of Writing
  • SWI-WRI-GDI-2024 - Graduate Diploma of Writing
  • SWI-WRI-MAS-2024 - Master of Writing

Elective

  • UNE-PRO-GCE-2024 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
  • OUA-PSU-GCE-2024 - Postgraduate Single Subjects

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

  • SWI-LPW500 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.

Related degrees

Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses

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PostgraduateSWI-WRI-GCE

Graduate Certificate of Writing

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PostgraduateSWI-WRI-GDI

Graduate Diploma of Writing

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PostgraduateSWI-WRI-MAS

Master of Writing

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PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE

Postgraduate Single Subjects

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