Program Overview

EGL249 - The Short Story: Approaches to Writing and Reading

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Offerings

• MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE
  • Teaching period code: Semester 2-S2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX
  • Teaching period code: Semester 2-S2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Online Flexible
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: Yes

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the formal elements of texts and genres and how they shape meaning. Reflect on how writers transgress generic expectations.
2. Participate in individual and collaborative work.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in revising own writing for clarity. Develop recognition of own authorial voice.

Unit Content

Published authors' approaches to writing short fiction; short story forms; structure; scene and summary; drafting, revision and editing short fiction; imagery and description; characterisation; sentence structure; writing dialogue.

Unit Details

• Unit version: 15
• Version start date: 01/01/2025
• Owning college: College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
• Owning school: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• Credit points: 3