Writing Short Stories: Practice, Experiment, and Play

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the work of a range of short story writers
• The methods by which writers work
• Key elements of short fiction and how to experiment with them: character, point of view, plot, dialogue, imagery

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• produce a finished short story
• write critical commentaries about your work
• successfully plan, structure, rewrite and edit your work.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• generate and develop ideas for short stories
• to think critically about your own creative practice and articulate its unique features

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.