| Module Identifier | PF30610 | ||
| Module Title | PERFORMANCE WRITING | ||
| Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Ms Jill Greenhalgh | ||
| Semester | Semester 2 | ||
| Other staff | Dr Roger Owen, Stephen J Robins | ||
| Course delivery | Lecture | 10 Hours 10 x 1 hour lectures | |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours 4 x 2 hour writing seminars | ||
| Assessment | Semester Assessment | Essay 1 One written piece, equivalent to 2,500 words, to be executed on 2 A3 sheets | 50% |
| Semester Assessment | Essay 2 One written piece, equivalent to 2,500 words, to be executed at another site physical or electronic (where students are competent to use electronic media) | 50% | |
to apply critically various strategies of performance writing in their own creative work
to demonstrate an intelligent awareness of compositional procedures involved in writing for modes of performance other than those of dramatic dialogue
to conduct independent research in the creative generation of text suitable for written or oral exposition
to organize and present text effectively in relation to its specific context of exposition
to introduce approaches and strategies of writing for, about, and as performance which provide alternatives to the conventions of dramatic dialogue and which challenge the formal divisions of theory and practice implicit in studies of theatre
to encourage the integration of theoretical and creative modes of written and oral exposition
to introduce writing strategies that enable students to place themselves at the centre of their writing
Lecture content::
‘Writing the self’ - Memory and Anecdote
‘Fictionalising the self ‘ - Biography and Monologue
‘Ways of telling’ - Narrative and Storytelling
‘Telling as metaphor’ - Poetics
‘Telling as juxtaposition’ - Montage
‘Assembly as telling’ - Collage
‘Technology as telling’ - Website
‘Reflexive telling’ - Creative Writing in Theory
‘Telling data’ - Creative Writing in Science
'Blurred genres' - telling across disciplinary boundaries
Criteria for assessment :
i] Performance Writing Pieces 1 + 2 : in assessing the pieces of performance writing, the examiners will expect:
- creation of forms of writing appropriate to the site of exposition (25% of overall piece mark)
- successful identification of, and engagement with, site of exposition (25%)
- innovative techniques of writing within an academic context (25%)
- effective practical realisation of conceptual notions (25%)