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Novel Ways: Writing the Novel - CED00007C

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  • Department: Centre for Lifelong Learning
  • Module co-ordinator: Mr. Andrew Parrott
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: C
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Summer Term 2022-23

Module aims

The module aims to offer students the opportunity to study and practice the techniques of novel writing and to embark on the writing of their own. The workshop format will be paramount in the sharing and critiquing of work which is completed as responses to writing exercises set. Through these exercise and through guided exploration and study the student will learn:

  • Ways of working - the dedicated writer.
  • The history of the novel and its current place in the literary world.
  • The differences between Literary and Genre novels.
  • The current market place.
  • How to present work professionally.
  • The technicalities of writing:
  1. Characterisation
  2. Dialogue
  3. Plot
  4. Structure
  5. Setting
  6. Viewpoint
  7. Setting
  8. Time frame
  9. Sequencing



All underpinned by the reading, analysis and discussion of published novels along with the promotion and nurturing of critical judgement through analysing their own work and the work of their fellow students.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module the student should:

  • Have a better understanding of the key elements ways of the novel.
  • Begin to recognise the different techniques required for fiction writing within genre.
  • Have developed their technical writing skills.
  • Be better able to express themselves imaginatively with precision and clarity.
  • Have begun to develop their critiquing abilities and their abilities to revise and redraft.
  • Have read, analysed and discussed published work by established writers.
  • Have written/be in the process of writing a sustained piece of imaginative prose.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Sample , Synopsis & Critical Commentary		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Sample , Synopsis & Critical Commentary		 N/A 100

Module feedback

The tutor will give regular individual verbal and written feedback throughout the module on work submitted.

The assessment feedback is as per the university’s guidelines with regard to timings.

Indicative reading

  • Braine, John How to Write a Novel (Methuen, 2000)
  • Burroway, Janet Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft ( Longman, 2006)
  • Grenville, Kate The Writing Book (Allen and Unwin, 1990)
  • Forster, E M Aspects of The Novel (Penguin, 1962)
  • King, Stephen On Writing : A Memoir (New English Library, 2001)
  • Lodge, Gavid The Art of Fiction (Penguin, 1993)
  • Singleton J & Luckhurst M The Creative Writing Handbook. Second Edition. (Palgrove, 2000)


The information on this page is indicative of the module that is currently on offer. The University is constantly exploring ways to enhance and improve its degree programmes and therefore reserves the right to make variations to the content and method of delivery of modules, and to discontinue modules, if such action is reasonably considered to be necessary by the University. Where appropriate, the University will notify and consult with affected students in advance about any changes that are required in line with the University's policy on the Approval of Modifications to Existing Taught Programmes of Study.