PWRP3010 Writing Creative Non-Fiction Semester 1, 2016

Unit study package code: PWRP3010

Mode of study: Internal

Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section.

Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly

This unit does not have a fieldwork component.

Credit Value: 25.0

Pre-requisite units: Nil

Co-requisite units: Nil

Anti-requisite units: Nil

Result type: Grade/Mark

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Unit Outline

PWRP3010 Writing Creative Non-Fiction Semester 1, 2016

Faculty of Humanities Department of Communication and Cultural Studies

PWRP3010 Writing Creative Non-Fiction Bentley Campus 12 Feb 2016 Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Page: 1 of 12CRICOS Provider Code 00301J

The only authoritative version of this Unit Outline is to be found online in OASIS

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Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present.

Syllabus Creative non-fiction is a hybrid of literature and non-fiction. It includes narrative non-fiction, memoir, personal essay and literary journalism, and combines the diligence of the journalist, the analysis of the essayist, and the story telling techniques of the novelist. The genre encompasses a broad range of topics in which the narrative events and experiences are used to explore more complex themes and issues, and in which ethical and cross-cultural issues are addressed. In this unit, you will read and analyse works of creative non-fiction and write an original work of your own.

Introduction Welcome to Writing Creative Non-fiction. This is a challenging and rewarding unit for students who wish to explore the possibilities of creative non-fiction. We will read, discuss and analyse a range of forms in the genre and you will write your own original work. This unit works as a three-hour seminar each week which includes: lecture content (sometimes guest lecturers), discussion of relevant issues, analysis and discussion of set readings, workshopping work in progress, and writing exercises. All your assessment items are relevant to real-world writing and publishing.

Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of nine graduate attributes during their course of study. These tell an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and attributes which employers say would be useful in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the graduate attributes through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes tell you what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your achievement of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.

Your course has been designed so that on graduating we can say you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Attributes through the assurance of learning process in each unit.

Curtin's Graduate Attributes

On successful completion of this unit students can: Graduate Attributes addressed

1 Identify and describe the generic characteristics and conventions of creative non-fiction

2 Apply the generic characteristics and conventions of creative non-fiction to the design and creation of a new work of creative non-fiction

3 Critique and evaluate creative non-fiction texts, peer creative production, and personal creative practice

4 Analyse the range of ethical and cross-cultural issues involved in writing creatively about real people

Apply discipline knowledge Thinking skills (use analytical skills to solve problems)

Information skills (confidence to investigate new ideas)

Communication skills Technology skillsLearning how to learn (apply principles learnt to new situations) (confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems)

International perspective (value the perspectives of others)

Cultural understanding (value the perspectives of others)

Professional Skills (work independently and as a team) (plan own work)

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Learning Activities This unit is both theoretical and practical. You will need to read and think about all the set texts (available on e-Reserve) and come to class ready to contribute to the discussion. You will be asked to lead a discussion several times during the semester as well. The lecture component of each class will be interactive and informal - you will be encouraged to ask questions and debate issues with the tutor and guest lecturers. Each week we will do a different writing exercise. Over time you will find that these exercises feed into your assessments for the unit (your own creative non-fiction works). You will also be part of a small group and present your own material to the group for workshopping. You will respond to other students' material and learn how to give and receive constructive feedback. All the learning activities in this unit help you complete the assessment tasks and the assessments give you valuable feedback on your own thinking and writing. A detailed Program Calendar for the whole semester will be attached to this Outline and posted on Blackboard.

Learning Resources Online resources

l You will find your REQUIRED reading at Curtin Library e-Reserve where you can search under the title, the author's name or under Robertson, Rachel. A list of the readings is noted in the Program Calendar. You are required to read each week's reading in advance of the tutorial.

There is also a list of good books on creative non-fiction called General Readings at the end of the Program Calendar. These are not required reading but will be useful to you.

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Assessment Assessment schedule

Detailed information on assessment tasks

1. Assessment 1 – Proposal or Outline (15%)

A proposal or outline of the creative non-fiction writing project (your major project) which will become Assessment 2. This outline should include:

l an explanation of the meaning and purpose of the planned work l an overview of content, narrative position and tone l identification of any ethical or cultural issues to be considered l an indication of any research process and sources involved or interviews to be conducted.

The topic of this assignment must be approved by your tutor in week 2 and workshopped in class in week 3.

600 words. Due by 8pm Friday 25 March - submit via Drop Box in Blackboard.

Please note: There will be two Turnitin submission points provided for this assessment in Blackboard. The first is a Revision (or DRAFT) submission point where you can submit your draft for this assessment. Only ONE draft submission is allowed, for which you will receive formative feedback from Turnitin in the form of an Originality report. Note in busy periods an Originality report may take Turnitin up to 24 hours to generate. Late submissions to this point are NOT allowed. The assessment submitted here will NOT be marked.

The second is a FINAL submission point where you can submit your final version of this assessment. ONE submission only is allowed, for which you will receive formative feedback from Turnitin in the form of an Originality report. Note in busy periods an Originality report may take Turnitin up to 24 hours to generate. Late submissions to this point are allowed (and will be subject to penalties as per the Late Assessment policy in this unit outline). The assessment submitted here will be marked.

2. Assessment 2 – Major Creative Non-Fiction Project (40%)

A creative non-fiction writing project as outlined in Assessment 1. This is the primary writing project of the unit and work on developing the concept and outline and consideration of research requirements should commence following the first seminar in the first week of semester. You will be required to workshop this assignment during tutorials from week 11. You should note any sources for your work at the end of the work using APA style.

2500 words. Due in by 8pm on Wednesday 8 June - submit via Drop box in Blackboard.

Please note: There will be two Turnitin submission points provided for this assessment in Blackboard. The first is a Revision (or DRAFT) submission point where you can submit your draft for this assessment. Only ONE draft submission is allowed, for which you will receive formative feedback from Turnitin in the form of an Originality report. Note in busy periods an Originality report may take Turnitin up to 24 hours to generate.

Task Value % Date DueUnit Learning Outcome(s)

Assessed

1Proposal for creative non-fiction project 15 percent Week: Week 4

Day: Friday Time: 20:00

1

2Major creative non-fiction project 40 percent Week: Week 15

Day: Wednesday Time: 20:00

1,2

3

Workshop and Presentation 15 percent Week: Every teaching week Day: In class Time: Seminar

2,3,4

4

Short form creative non-fiction 30 percent Week: Week 7 and 11 Day: Friday Time: 20:00

1,3,4





Late submissions to this point are NOT allowed. The assessment submitted here will NOT be marked.


3. Assessment 3 – Workshop and Presentation (15%)

You are required to present draft material from Assessment 2 at least twice during this semester for small group workshopping and to participate in the workshopping of other students’ draft work.

You are also required to participate in the class writing exercises and discussions after completing the pre-readings each week.

In addition to this, every student will be required to present for 5 minutes on one of the set readings and lead a subsequent discussion. Your tutor will allocate you a set reading to discuss in week 1. Your presentation should consist of:

l five key points about this reading in relation to creative non-fiction as a genre l what you have learned from this reading (especially in terms of creative non-fiction techniques) l three questions to start discussion about the reading.

Your mark will reflect your performance in the classroom and workshopping groups, and the professional standards you apply to your work.

Ongoing Assessment in class.

4. Assessment 4 – Short form creative non-fiction works (two works) (30% total)

This assessment consists of two separate short works of creative non-fiction. This allows you to develop and apply your skills as the semester progresses and gain feedback from your tutor to enable your final major creative non-fiction work to be the best you can make it. Ass 4a will constitute 10% of your final mark while 4b will constitute 20% of your final mark. This reflects the shorter length of your first work and also the fact that you can use the feedback you get for 4a to improve your work for 4b.

Ass 4a: Creative non-fiction work evoking a place or setting - 10%

Write a 750 word work of creative non-fiction of a style and standard suitable for publication (for example in Brevity journal) that evokes a particular place or setting. Your readings in week 3 provide good examples of this type of work. Please note any references you have used at the end in APA format.

750 words. Due in by Friday 15 April 8pm via Drop box in Blackboard.

Please note: There will be two Turnitin submission points provided for this assessment in Blackboard. The first is a Revision (or DRAFT) submission point where you can submit your draft for this assessment. Only ONE draft submission is allowed, for which you will receive formative feedback from Turnitin in the form of an Originality report. Note in busy periods an Originality report may take Turnitin up to 24 hours to generate. Late submissions to this point are NOT allowed. The assessment submitted here will NOT be marked.


Ass 4b: Creative non-fiction work that features a character - 20%

Write a 1000 word work of creative non-fiction of a style and standard suitable for publication (for example in Kill Your Darlings or Lifted Brow journals) that features someone other than yourself. You should demonstrate your ability to convey character (through description, scene and dialogue perhaps) and tell a story. The work can be memoir if you like so long as another person is featured as well as yourself. Please note any references you have used at the end in APA format.

1000 words. Due in by Friday 13 May 8pm via Drop box in Blackboard.

Please note: There will be two Turnitin submission points provided for this assessment in Blackboard. The first





is a Revision (or DRAFT) submission point where you can submit your draft for this assessment. Only ONE draft submission is allowed, for which you will receive formative feedback from Turnitin in the form of an Originality report. Note in busy periods an Originality report may take Turnitin up to 24 hours to generate. Late submissions to this point are NOT allowed. The assessment submitted here will NOT be marked.


Pass requirements

There are two requirements to achieve a ‘pass’ grade in the unit. 1. An overall mark of 50% across the different assessments in the unit, and 2. All assessments must be attempted and submitted. Failure to attempt and submit an assessment will result in a ‘Fail‐incomplete’ grade for the unit irrespective of the mark achieved.

Fair assessment through moderation

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Late assessment policy

This ensures that the requirements for submission of assignments and other work to be assessed are fair, transparent, equitable, and that penalties are consistently applied.

1. All assessments students are required to submit will have a due date and time specified on this Unit Outline. 2. Students will be penalised by a deduction of ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission

(eg a mark equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assessment worth 20 marks will have two marks deducted per calendar day late. Hence if it was handed in three calendar days late and given a mark of 16/20, the student would receive 10/20. An assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0.

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The student will be expected to lodge the form and supporting documentation with the unit coordinator before the assessment date/time or due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the date or due date of the assessment task where the student is able to provide an acceptable explanation as to why he or she was not able to submit the application prior to the assessment date. An application for an assessment extension will not be accepted after the date of the Board of Examiners' meeting.

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Supplementary assessments

Supplementary assessments are not available in this unit.

Referencing style

The referencing style for this unit is APA 6th Ed.

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Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Submitting work which has been produced by someone else (e.g. allowing or contracting another person to do the work for which you claim authorship) is also plagiarism. Submitted work is subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which may include the use of text matching systems or interviews with students to determine authorship.

Cheating includes (but is not limited to) asking or paying someone to complete an assessment task for you or any use of unauthorised materials or assistance during an examination or test.

From Semester 1, 2016, all incoming coursework students are required to complete Curtin’s Academic Integrity Program (AIP). If a student does not pass the program by the end of their first study period of enrolment at Curtin, their marks will be withheld until they pass. More information about the AIP can be found at: https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm

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Additional information Late Submission of Assignments

This unit accepts late submission of assignments (within 1 week of due date) for assessments 1, 2 and 4 only. For each day late up to 7 days, 10% of the total marks available will be deducted. After 7 days, assignments will not be accepted. If you do not submit an assignment, you will fail the unit (as incomplete), regardless of your other marks.

Please note: if you want an extension on an assignment for a valid reason, please speak to your tutor well before the assessment is due.

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Recent unit changes Students are encouraged to provide unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtin's online student feedback system. For more information about eVALUate, please refer to evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/.

Recent changes to this unit include:

Evaluate reports suggested that one of our assessment items (Ass 4) was not as effective as it could have been and so we have adapted that based on student feedback.

While many students were very happy with the readings, many others felt some more recent readings in CNF would be beneficial and some wanted shorter readings; hence we have changed and updated a number of readings. We include some cutting edge and much shorter readings this year.

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Program calendar This will be posted on BB as well (with better formatting).

Week Begin Date

Topic and Lecture Seminar

Activities

Pre-readings – see detailed

references below

Assess-ment Due

Orientation 22 February

Orientation Week

1. 29 February

What is Creative Non-Fiction?

Introductions. What is CNF? Discussions. Writing exercises.

Lee Gutkind: What is Creative Nonfiction?

Alan Cheuse: Finding a Story, or Using the Whole Pig

2. 7 March Storytelling in CNF Unfolding your story. Discussion of set texts. Writing exercises. Get approval from your tutor for your topic of Ass 2.

Helen Garner: The Feel of Steel 1 & 2

Lee Gutkind: Teeth

Ass 3 (presentations and workshopping) start this week; ongoing.

3. 14 March

Place and Setting

Guest lecturer: Dr Wayne Price, University of Aberdeen on “The Voice of a Place: Setting your Settings Free”

Guest lecture. Discussion of set texts. Writing exercises. Workshop Ass 1.

April Monroe: The Potato Harvest

Rachel Toliver: First Apartment - Brooklyn, 2002

Carol Rauh Spalding: Tuesday Evening at the Rue de Fleurus

4. 21 March

No formal class. One to one consultations available by dropping in on Tuesday 9-11 in 400: 222 or 2-4 in 501: 103. You can ask us to read a draft of Ass 1 if you wish.

As there is a Good Friday public holiday this week, we have no classes but instead offer you an opportunity to consult with your tutors.

No reading Ass 1 (outline) due Friday 25 March 8pm WST in dropbox.

5. 28 March

Tuition Free Week

6. 4 April Scene, Summary, Reflection

Understanding scene, summary and reflection. Discussion of set texts. Writing exercises. Workshop Ass 4a.

George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier

Anna Funder: Stasiland pp1-9

7. 11 April The Personal Essay The personal essay. Discussion of set texts. Writing exercises.

Deborah Hunn: The Red and the Blue

Joe Bonomo: Locating an Essay’s DNA

Ass 4a (place) due Friday 15 April 8pm WST in dropbox





HOW TO FIND YOUR PRE-READINGS/SET TEXTS

Please ensure that you read your set texts prior to attending the seminar. If it is your turn to present a reading, then you will need to do some preparation for that as well. See Assessment 3 for more information.

Your readings can be found on eReserve. In order to save space in the program calendar above, I have only listed author and title there for each work. The full reference details are noted below for each reference (in the same order).

Gutkind, Lee (2012). What is Creative Nonfiction? Online extract from You Can’t Make This Stuff Up. De Capo. https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonfiction

Cheuse, Alan (2001). Finding a Story, or Using the Whole Pig in Forche, Carolyn and Philip Gerard. Writing Creative Nonfiction. Ohio: AWP, pp 34-37.

Garner, Helen (2008). The Feel of Steel 1 & The Feel of Steel 2 from The Feel of Steel. Melbourne: Picador, pp 172-175 and pp 203-206.

8. 18 April Tuition Free Week

9. 25 April Memoir The memoir. Discussion of set texts. Writing exercises. Discuss major work.

Nick Albrook: Creative Darwinism

Galarrwuy Yunupingu: Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow

10. 2 May Character and Dialogue

Creating character. Discussion of set texts. Writing exercises. Formation of small groups.

Alice Pung: Unpolished Gem

Jennifer Luebbers: Choir

11. 9 May Research in CNF

Guest lecturer: David Whish-Wilson, Senior Lecturer and author.

Guest lecture. Discussion of set text. Small group workshopping 1.

David Whish-Wilson: The River

Ass 4b (character) due Friday 13 May 8pm WST in dropbox

12. 16 May Using Everyday Life Writing exercises. Discussion of set texts. Small group workshopping 2.

John Hull: Touching the Rock (extracts)

Barrie Jean Borich: The Ankle Bone’s Connected to the Memory Bone

13. 23 May Truth, Ethics, Privacy Ethical issues. Discussion of set texts. Small group workshopping 3.

Craig Sherborne: Unforgiven

Martin McKenzie-Murray: A Murder Without Motive (Introduction)

14. 30 May Experimental Forms and Getting Published

Publishing tips. Experimental CNF and discussion of set text. Small group workshopping 4.

Eula Biss: The Pain Scale

15. 6 June Ass 2 (major work) due Wednesday 8 June 8pm WST in dropbox

16. 13 June Examinations

17. 20 June Examinations





https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonfiction

Gutkind, Lee (1999). Teeth from the Art of Creative Non-fiction. New York: Harper Collins, pp 167-177

Monroe, April (2009). The Potato Harvest. Brevity, September 23. http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/the-potato-harvest/

Toliver, Rachel (2011). First Apartment - Brooklyn, 2002. Brevity, May 1. http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/first-apartment-brooklyn-2002/

Spalding, Carol Rauh (2010). Tuesday Evening at the Rue de Fleurus. Brevity, January 5. http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/tuesday-evening-at-the-rue-de-fleurus/

Orwell, George (2001). Chapter 1 of The Road to Wigan Pier. Penguin, pp 3-16.

Funder, Anna (2002). Chapter Chapter 1 of Stasiland. Melbourne: Text, pp 1-9. NB: Please read chapter 2 as well pp 10-30 if you have time. It is fascinating.

Hunn, Deborah (2015). The Red and the Blue: Confessions of an (Unlikely) Dockers Fan. Purple Prose edited by Liz Byrski and Rachel Robertson. Fremantle: Fremantle Press, pp116-131.

Bonomo, Joe (2013). Locating an Essay’s DNA. Brevity, September 12. http://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/locating-an-essays-dna/

Albrook, Nick (2015). Creative Darwinism. Review 47: Looking West. Brisbane: Griffith University, pp 116-121.

Yunupingu, Galarrwuy (2008). Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow. The Monthly, 41 (2008 Dec/2009 Jan) pp 32, 34-40.

Pung, Alice (2006). Extract from Unpolished Gem. Melbourne: Black Inc, pp 1-20.

Luebbers, Jennifer (2011). Choir. Brevity, January 1. http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/choir/

Whish-Wilson, David (2013). The River from Perth. NewSouth, pp 21-46.

Hull, John (1994). Extracts from Touching the Rock. In McPherson, Deb (ed.) Images and reflections: exploring Australian non-fiction. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 65-69

Borich, Barrie Jean (2013). The Ankle Bone’s Connected to the Memory Bone. Brevity, May 14. http://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/the-ankle-bones-connected-to-the-memory-bone/

Sherborne, Craig (2008). Unforgiven, the Monthly (Feb.) pp 36-43

McKenzie-Murray, Martin (2016). Introduction from A Murder Without Motive: the Killing of Rebecca Ryle. Brunswick: Scribe, pp 1-18.

Biss, Eula (2014). The Pain Scale in We Might As Well Call it the Lyric Essay edited by John D’Agata. Geneva: Seneca Review, pp11-24.

General Readings

These are not required readings but are good books about CNF and will help you write well.

Forche, Carolyn and Philip Gerard (2001). Writing Creative Nonfiction. Ohio: AWP.

Gutkind, Lee (2012). You Can’t Make This Stuff Up. De Capo. https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonfiction

Hampl, Patricia & Elaine Tyler May (2008). Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life. Minnesota: Borealis Books.

Miller, Brenda and Suzanne Paola (2012). Tell it Slant. Chicago: McGraw-Hill.

Moore, Dinty W (2010). Crafting the personal essay: a guide for writing and publishing creative nonfiction. Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books.

Prentiss, Sean and Joe Wilkins (eds) (2014). The far edges of the fourth genre: an anthology of explorations in creative nonfiction. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

Singer, Margot & Nicole Walker (2013). Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. New York: Bloomsbury.





http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/the-potato-harvest/

http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/first-apartment-brooklyn-2002/

http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/tuesday-evening-at-the-rue-de-fleurus/

http://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/locating-an-essays-dna/

http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/choir/

http://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/the-ankle-bones-connected-to-the-memory-bone/

https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonfiction

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PWRP3010 Writing Creative Non-Fiction Semester 1, 2016