Course description
On this course, you’ll be able to harness your inner creativity and apply it to pieces of writing ready to submit to potential publishers. This course will allow you to study the convenient way! You decide when and where you learn, at your own pace. Your coursework can be submitted by either post or email, making it easy and hassle-free. All your course materials will then be delivered to you by post or sent to you online, so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors are there to help you every step of the way by email, so help is only a click away! Start your journey and develop your skills and knowledge today and join over [past_students_count] students that already have!
Course Content
Unit 1 Creative Writing – what it entails
- Identify and explain a variety of reasons for writing
- Evaluate your experience of writing
- Analyse your writing style
- Identify and judge a time when to write
- Develop a plan for creative writing
Unit 2 Different Texts and Genres
- Identify different types of genres associated with creative writing and explain these
- Identify different types of sub-genres associated with creative writing and explain these
- Summarise the meaning of ‘conflict’ within creative writing
- Explain the term ‘critical analysis’ as it applies to creative writing
- Recognise your reading preferences and critically compare the preferences of others
- Explain the genre of life writing
- Explain the sub-genre of a biography
- Interpret how to plot a biography
Unit 3 Developing Character, Dialogue and Style
- Apply your skills in writing in the first, second and third person
- Explanation of the term ‘writing style’
- Explain the nature and purpose of dialogue
- Create a believable character and provide a character analysis
- Summarise tips to aid writing and be able to put these into practice in a piece of written work
Unit 4 Creative Writing Processes Part 1
- Critically compare different writing styles
- Analyse the genre and elements of the short story
- Demonstrate the skills needed to plot and write an excerpt from a short story, novel and life writing
- Evaluate the importance of locations in a novel
- Evaluate the skills needed to write a play
- Critically analyse different script layouts
- Demonstrate the ability to write a scene from a script for a stage play
- Summarise the important points in editing and proof reading and be able to edit a piece of your own work
Unit 5 Creative Writing Processes Part 2
- Apply your skills in writing poems in several forms, for example, a sonnet, rhyming verse and free verse
- Analyse the genre of writing for children
- Apply your skills in writing a poem for children
- Apply your skills in writing a short story for children
- Summarise the requirements of non-fiction writing
- Analyse journalism and be able to write a news story
Unit 6 Writing Scripts for Radio and TV
- Produce a scene for a radio play, applying the required skills
- Demonstrate the skills needed to write a short story or a poem for radio
- Demonstrate the skills needed to write a script for TV
- Explain how to write to meet the requirements of a brief
- Summarise the structure of a radio feature
- Apply your skills in preparation of a piece of work for submission to a publisher
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