1. Acquire and improve writing and editing techniques necessary to craft literary texts.
2. Apply analytical tools from stylistics and literary criticism in reflecting on self-written fiction and non-fiction in prose and poetry.
3. Polish and perfect already highly advanced English writing, up to and beyond effective operational proficiency (CEFR C1) to mastery (CEFR C2).

 

This course uses students’ reading of literatures in English to teach the writing and editing of literary fiction and non-fiction in prose and poetry. Neither children’s fiction nor genre fiction feature. Students annotate their work and critically evaluate both their own and their peers’ texts. A process writing approach is taken, stressing rewriting and editing. To this end students read aloud their work in writers’ workshops.

This course forms one of two alternate endings to the Intertextuality specialisation.

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/