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Foreword | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
General introduction | p. 1 |
Who is this book for? | p. 1 |
How will you benefit from it? | p. 2 |
What's in this book | p. 3 |
The context | |
Creative writing: can it be taught? | p. 7 |
Practice makes perfect - or does it? | p. 8 |
Pressing the brake to go faster | p. 10 |
Craft and mystery | p. 15 |
Summary | p. 17 |
Creative writing: why take a university course? | p. 19 |
A course is a course, isn't it? What makes a degree course different | p. 20 |
Process and product: authors, dead or alive | p. 22 |
Writer, reader and reality | p. 25 |
Summary | p. 30 |
Creative writing now | p. 31 |
Creative writing - where to find it | p. 31 |
The history of creative writing - what's it to you? | p. 33 |
Creative writing within other subjects | p. 35 |
The growth of creative writing - how it affects your course | p. 36 |
Who's teaching creative writing, and why? | p. 38 |
Who's doing creative writing, and why? | p. 44 |
Summary | p. 46 |
Studying creative writing | |
How courses are organised and how you will learn | p. 49 |
Choices, units and contact time | p. 49 |
How are creative writing courses taught? | p. 50 |
Lectures, tutorials and virtual learning environments | p. 51 |
Seminars and workshops | p. 53 |
Get-to-know-you and guidelines | p. 54 |
Training and the real event | p. 54 |
Games and exercises within the workshop | p. 55 |
Something you prepared earlier | p. 57 |
Dealing with feedback | p. 59 |
Giving good feedback | p. 61 |
How much do I have to tell them? | p. 64 |
Progression | p. 66 |
Summary | p. 66 |
Assessment | p. 69 |
It's subjective, isn't it? | p. 69 |
Assessment in the writing industries | p. 70 |
Assessment criteria | p. 71 |
Non-creative assessment items | p. 76 |
Other assessment methods | p. 80 |
Assessment, feedback and monitoring | p. 81 |
Attendance | p. 82 |
Final word | p. 84 |
Summary | p. 84 |
Writers' habits, writers' skills | |
Developing your own working habits | p. 87 |
Tough to do at home... | p. 87 |
Where to write | p. 88 |
When to write | p. 89 |
Word counts: the false gods | p. 91 |
Writing isn't just writing | p. 92 |
Reading as a writer | p. 94 |
Exemplary books on a similar topic | p. 95 |
Factual books | p. 95 |
Books with a style or a voice | p. 96 |
Books as market research | p. 96 |
A note on plagiarism | p. 98 |
Organising yourself | p. 99 |
Summary | p. 101 |
Writing and editing | p. 103 |
How do you write? | p. 103 |
The necessity of editing | p. 104 |
Levels of editing: how to edit, and when | p. 105 |
Too Much for Normous | p. 107 |
The naming of files | p. 109 |
Task avoidance | p. 110 |
Word counts again | p. 112 |
Presentation and layout: make your work a pleasure to read | p. 113 |
Summary | p. 115 |
Conclusion: beyond the course | p. 117 |
Had enough? | p. 117 |
The academic route: further study | p. 118 |
Writing | p. 120 |
Journalism | p. 120 |
Books | p. 122 |
Scriptwriting | p. 123 |
Poetry | p. 123 |
Writing-related careers | p. 124 |
And finally... | p. 124 |
Case studies: James Joyce and other writers | p. 125 |
Further reading | p. 137 |
Index | p. 151 |
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