Writing Project

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Tutorial supervision whose methodology will depend on the topic and the area. The process of teaching is based on reading and commentary of the project, which will take place in successive iterations of writing and rewriting. The evaluation is based on the public presentation and discussion of the writing project.
The objectives defined for the course unit will be used as evaluation criteria for the writing project.

Learning Outcomes

1. To demonstrate ability to invent verbal worlds, develop characters, construct situations and conflicts, evoke emotions and experiences, produce rigorous descriptions and analyses, construct and deconstruct discourses, depending on the nature of the project;
2. To adapt representation strategies and material form to fictional, non-fictional, dramatic or poetic situations, depending on the nature of the project;
3. To demonstrate constructive complexity in the structure of the work, considering the project’s textual genre;
4. To be able to critically explore conventions, according to the project’s textual genre
6. To be able to interpellate and affect the reader through the use of technical devices
7. To creatively exploration the potential of tools and platforms, in the case of digital writing projects
8. To demonstrate originality in its integrated exploration of the aforementioned elements
9. To demonstrate reflexivity in its critical awareness of language and textual genres.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Depending on the topic and domain chosen by the student. The specific contents for the project/dissertation/internship cannot be specified a priori since they will depend on students' options. Thus, the nature of the project (fiction writing, theatre, poetry, digital forms, etc.,) or the dissertation (theories of creative writing, theories of writing processes, etc.) or internship (theater company, book publisher, audiovisual production company, etc.) will imply different syllabi.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The evaluation is based on the public presentation and discussion of the writing project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Além das obras que dependem da área e do tema escolhidos pelo/a estudante, serão usadas as seguintes obras de referência / Besides those works that will
depend on the students' choice of area and topic, the following reference works will be used:
ADSIT, J. (ed.) (2018). Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft. Bloomsbury Academic.
CARVALHO, M. (2014). Quem disser o contrário é porque tem razão. Letras sem tretas. Guia Prático de Escrita de Ficção. Lisboa: Porto Editora.
CLARK, M. D.; Hergenrader, T.; and Rein, J. (2017). Creative Writing Innovations: Breaking Boundaries in the Classroom. London: Bloomsbury.
CLARK, M. D.; Hergenrader, T.; and Rein, J. (2015). Creative Writing in the Digital Age: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury.
HARPER, G. ed. (2013). A Companion to Creative Writing. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.