Authorship and Publication

Institution: 
Edith Cowan University
Code: 
WRT3115
Year: 
2011
Levels: 
Undergraduate

This unit explores the procedures and principles of writing for publication in such fields as creative writing, report writing, and promotion. The emphasis is on practical problems of research, drafting, editing, and submitting manuscripts.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. conduct research for a variety of writing tasks;

2. competently use a range of literary devices and strategies;

3. draft, edit and self-publish a professional monograph;

4. seek out and respond to writers' marketing opportunities (publication, writing competitions or performances of their own written texts or scripts);

5. deal with basic self-management aspects of free-lance authorship (contracts, proposals, publicity, agents, copyright, and self-publishing);

6. Show an understanding of basic legal and ethical issues associated with publication.

UNIT CONTENT

1. Field experience of researching material for writing projects (especially use of observation, a writer's journal, and library resources).

2. Developing a writer's personal reference and resource collection (use of thesaurus, dictionary, books, style manuals, marketing guides, periodicals etc.).

3. Developing the students compositions (nonfiction, fiction, poetry or script) through various manuscript stages towards publication.

4. Participation in writing workshops and manuscript analysis.

5. Workshops aimed at giving students knowledge of the legal and ethical obligations of writers and some business aspects of writing (e.g. copyright, agents, contracts, promotion and self-publishing).

Texts: 
Carter, David [ed.]
Galligan, Anne [ed.]
Making Books : Contemporary Australian Publishing 2007 Criticism
Grenville, Kate The Writing Book : A Workbook for Fiction Writers 1990 Non-fiction
Organisational Body: 
School of Communication and Arts
Degrees: 
Bachelor of Arts
Assessment: 

Writing folio (including writer's notebook, textbook and workshop exercises) - 30%

Research Project - 30%

Monograph - 40%

Additional Information
Offered History: 
2009
Notes: 

Also available as WRT311S

Supplementary Texts: 

(2002). Style manual for authors, editors and printers. (6th ed.). Milton, QLD: Wiley.

(2004). The Australian writer's market place. Queensland Writers Centre.

Disher, G. (2001). Writing fiction. (2nd ed.). Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Dunn, I. (1999). The writers guide. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Johnston, S. (2002). Where stories come from: Beginning to write fiction. NY: Longman.

Lodge, D. (1996). The practice of writing. London: Secker & Warburg.

Methold, K. (1998). Writing as a business. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Nile, R. (2002). The making of the Australian literary imagination. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

Rawlins, J. (2002). The writers way. (5th ed.). USA: California State University.

Stillman, F. (2000). The poet's manual and rhyming dictionary. London: Thames & Hudson.

Schwarz, S. (1995). Australian guide to getting published. Sydney: Hale & Ironmonger.

Thiel, D. (2005). Crossroads: Creative writing exercises in four genres. NY: Pearson Longman.

Walker, B. (Ed.). (2002). The writer's reader. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Windshuttle, K., & Elliot, E. (1999). Writing, researching, communicating. (3rd ed.). NSW: Halstead Press.

Categories:
Unit Contexts: Creative Writing