Undergraduate TAS-HAA004-2023
Writing Family History
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Duration
14 weeks
Study method
100% Online
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Assessments
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Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 24 Jul 2023
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Subject details
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Use and reflect on a wide range of key strategies and techniques for writing narratives based on genealogical research.
- Write constructive critical feedback to help a writer improve a draft narrative.
- Produce a coherent work of short fiction or non-fiction based on genealogical research.
- Observe the conventions of spelling, punctuation, and grammar in narrative writing.
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- Refer to Mylo for study topics
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Who are the most interesting characters on your family tree? Would you like to write their stories to share with other family members, or with a wider audience? Perhaps you have an ancestor who is intriguing because of what you don't know about them and so can only imagine their story. This subject is an introduction to writing non-fictional and fictional narratives based on genealogical records. Students will gain skills in crafting engaging, readable family history narratives through writing historical and/or fictional pieces about people, places, and events from their family records.
- Writing Activities and Responses (50%)
- Short Written Narrative (50%)
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