Writing Program
Subjects on offer
Subject descriptions
LPW500 Critical friends: The Real and Virtual Support
This unit deals with two key issues: (i) how to get, and give, meaningful feedback on writing; and (ii) developing a broader social and theoretical understanding of the practice of writing and yourselves as writers. It is important to develop a capacity for critical evaluation of not only other people's writing, but also your own. It also accepts that we can get a better insight into how and what we write if we have an understanding of a range of critical and cultural theories.
It will explore how we act as critics, how we critically evaluate our own and other people's writing, how to be an effective critic and why we take the positions that we take when acting as critics. It also addresses how electronic communications technologies such as email, discussion threads and bulletin boards can be used to critically evaluate writing.
You will also investigate how theories such as Feminism or Marxism can used as useful frameworks for understanding social behaviour, and as means of achieving a sense of detachment when critically evaluating writing.
Back to the top ▲LPW501 Journalism
This unit enables students to develop an understanding of audience through considering a variety of journalism modes and models. In this unit, students will learn how the print media operates, how stories are constructed, and how to identify potential outlets for their own work.
Students will identify markets established by various publications and target them for specific contributions.
Back to the top ▲LPW502 Research to Publication
This unit acts to facilitate students writing capacities by highlighting the process of confronting the blank page from research to publication. It looks at the models of research in academic writing to convey a sense of the importance of research to the writing process. It also looks at more creative models such as poetry. Understanding some diverse research models will facilitate the writer's awareness that both professional and creative writing are based on similar processes. We also offer an interview with an established Publisher to provide industry perspectives on research publication.
Back to the top ▲LPW504 Real Life Writing
This unit enables students to develop an understanding of how to read, write, and research the wide range of textuality and discourse that they meet during the course of their work and/or general life. In this unit, students will learn how to review a wide number of topics.
Students will be asked to examine the ways in which different writing styles operate so as to meet the requirements of the purpose of the writing and its intended audience.
Back to the top ▲LPW600 Reading and Writing
This unit takes a theoretical as well as a practical view of these processes. Of interest to us as writers is not only how we read the world were describing, but also how our readers read us. Thus, ways of understanding the complex interplay between the acts of reading and writing are looked at through considerations of critical and cultural theories. We also take the opportunity to look at models of writing from various cultural backgrounds, applying theoretical as well as practical readings to them. Finally, the concept of what makes a piece of writing prize winning is considered. Through the use of models, this unit encourages students to broaden their own reading and writing processes and apply critical and cultural theories to help understand both.
Back to the top ▲LPW602 Writing History: People, Places and Times
Writing History is extremely popular in Australia. This may be because many indigenous people were displaced over the last 200 years and now they seek their backgrounds. Many people are interested in their colonial and convict past. The Australian Anglo Celtic dominant white culture has been enriched by migration from outside Britain, particularly in the last few years from Asia. Many people are re-visiting their cultural roots. In these lectures we develop ideas about writing history, which include models of writing about people, places and times, of using letters and visuals, of a sense of place and belonging and of editing. We also provide strategies as to how you might enrich your own writing and reading skills in this area.
Back to the top ▲LPW603 Script Adaptation
This unit enables students to develop an understanding of how to read, write, and research the wide range of adaptations that are made for presentation on stage, cinematic screen and computer screen. In this unit, students will learn how to act as writerly-readers of scripts. Elements of scriptwriting will be explores and students will be encourages to develop their own script proposals for an adaptation.
Back to the top ▲LPW604 Online Writing
This unit investigates the difference between writing on the page and writing online. Students explore the opportunities for writing through new electronic technologies, from curriculum development to electronic games structures. Students develop knowledge of the publication space offered globally to multimedia writing. Content is an essential element of new electronic environment and this unit explores that multimedia discourse. Students will develop a piece of writing for electronic publication using the framework provided throughout this unit.
Back to the top ▲LPW701A Publication Folio Part A
LPW701A Publication Folio Part A is a prerequisite for LPW701B Publication Folio Part B. You must complete LPW701A Publication Folio Part A before commencing The Units consist of a collection of topics which enable students, as writers, to have a broad understanding of the various ways in which writing operates. They explore the different elements of writing itself across many genres. From creative writing, poetry, business writing, song writing and writing for new electronic media. Students will also explore the different styles of writing used for different subject areas such as business, food, geography, history and science. In LPW701A Publication Folio Part A students will plan a major piece of writing which will be completed in LPW701B Publication Folio Part B.
Back to the top ▲LPW701B Publication Folio Part B
Students must complete LPW701A Publication Folio Part A before commencing LPW701B Publication Folio Part B. These units consist of a collection of topics which enable students, as writers, to have a broad understanding of the various ways in which writing operates. Students will explore the different elements of writing itself across many genres. From creative writing, poetry, business writing, song writing and writing for new electronic media. Students will also explore the different styles of writing used for different subject areas such as business, food, geography, history and science. In LPW701B Publication Folio Part B students will complete the major piece commenced in LPW701A Publication Folio Part A.
Back to the top ▲LPW700 The Writerly Self
This unit acts to enable students to advance their understandings of the process of writing, to look at ideas about writing, and to move outside their own comfort zone in the writing process. It also acts to bring together different ideas about different genres so that students can see synergies between various modes of writing. In this way, students may move beyond the constricts of what they already know and can do as writers into new arenas of writing. The unit aims to challenge students to find links and connections between their own preferred genres and styles and such areas as dramaturgy and business writing, writing in a language not your first tongue and the necessity to understand elements of intellectual property as it effects writers. In doing so this subject will develop the writerly self.
Back to the top ▲LPW703 Electronic Writing
This unit focuses on developing an understanding of the theory and practice of electronic writing. Students will consider how issues of globalisation and capitalism have driven the agendas for the multimedia industry and the development and applications of the internet and examine the implications of this on content. Students will also investigate a number of software applications that are used for developing multimedia and internet content and develop skills in their use. It is particularly concerned with how human interaction and behaviour will be changed by new media technologies. In addressing these questions, students will examine a range of software applications and consider the extent to which they represent a form of technological determinism.
Back to the top ▲LPW704 Script Writing
This unit aims to enable students to develop scripts for presentation to a nominated audience. To enable the development of this skill, students will investigate how adaptations occur in the utilisation of verbal scripts for visual deliveries, cinema, T.V. media and multimedia. It will also examine relevant literary and cultural theories which offer frameworks for understanding film and television narratives.
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