Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course develops both your written and oral communication skills.
On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
• Analyse and identify strengths and weaknesses within your own novel-writing and scriptwriting practice as well as being able to identify the strengths and weaknesses in the writing of other students in the group.
• Identify the major technical problems in your novels and screenplays and be able to offer technical solutions to those problems.
• Research the theoretical and technical aspects of novel writing and screenplay writing as a means of solving the major problems you are encountering in your own writing.
• Research and discuss the style of your own novel and screenplay in relation to the major styles of contemporary fiction and scriptwriting.
• Define the difference between revising and rewriting.
• Identify a marked improvement in your novel writing or screenplay writing ability as demonstrated by a comparison between the before-workshopping draft and the after-workshopping draft of an extract from your writing.
• Research and identify the potential market for your finished novel and screenplay.
