Creative Writing

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Concepts and themes exposition with questions during the teoretical-practical approach. the methodology will be predominantly practice, suplemented bay lectures with students participation and work presentations.The evaluation will be continuous, based on one groupwork presented in class (25% of the final grade). The remaining 75% of the final grade will came from individual written and printed work summited by the student (five to ten pages of text). This number of pages are not including text and/or image attachments. Assessment by examination will include all the material taught in class during the semester (100%).

1 Encourage creativity. 2 Knowing and experience some creative writing techniques. 3 Discover the writing, voice and creative vein of each. 4 Develop autonomous writing skills. 5 Share texts and develop textual criticism and self-criticism. 6 Organize ideas and textualize them. 7 Find out what creative writing is. 8 Knowing and trying out some techniques to flip writing. 9 Facing the blank page.10 Develop techniques for capturing the reader.11 Apply the narrative structure in the construction of a text.12 Develop aesthetic standards of literary appreciation.13 To internalize the mechanisms present in the poetic text: brief approach.14 Reflect on what you write, the way you write, the reasons why you write.15 Analyze the weaknesses and strengths of each written text / apprentice.16 Detect and avoid commonplaces.

Syllabus 1 Unlock creativity: playful, automatic and written writing with various stimuli. 2 Liberating constraints and writing as practice.3 Sensory universes: use the five senses to enrich writing. 4 Places and spaces for writing: scenery, protagonist or source of stories. 5 Build stories from objects and from everyday observation. 6 Creation of characters. 7 The voice of writing – writing with own voice, styles and types of narrator. 8 Investigation and construction of a narrative structure. 9 Design of dialogues. 10 Continuously review and revise writing.11 Poetic text: what counts and is not worth in reading, interpretation and poetic writing.

• - Exam - 100.0%

• - group work - 25.0%
• - Individual work - 75.0%

NAO

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