Hobart
Introduction
Adventure or romance, tragedy or triumph, legends of extraordinary feats or quiet tales of everyday struggles. What kinds of stories are there in your family tree? This unit builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in HAA004 Writing Family History. Students will have further opportunity to develop key skills for the writing of fiction and/or non-fiction based on genealogical records. The emphasis in this unit is on crafting and polishing engaging and readable multigenerational family history narratives.
Summary 2021
| Unit name | Writing the Family Saga |
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| Unit code | HAA104 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Arts, Law and Education School of Humanities |
| Discipline | English |
| Coordinator | Dr Naomi Parry |
| Teaching staff | |
| Level | Introductory |
| Available as student elective? | Yes |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
- Use, reflect on, and critically approach a wide range of key strategies and techniques for writing narratives based on genealogical research.
- Write constructive and comprehensive critical feedback to help a writer improve a draft narrative.
- Reflect and act on critical feedback to improve your own writing.
- Produce coherent, sustained, and linked works of short fiction or non-fiction based on genealogical research.
- Observe the conventions of spelling, punctuation, and grammar in narrative writing.
Fees
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | Fully online. |
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| Assessment | Task 1: Short online writing activities (6 x 250-word written pieces; 6 x 50–100 word reflective statements; 6 x 100-word constructive comments) 40% Task 2: Expanded writing activity (750-word written piece; 150-word reflective statement) 20% Task 3: Short written narrative (750-word written piece; 250-word reflective statement) 40% |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | None |
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