For those of you who are enrolled on the full MLitt programme this is the time of year when you create and complete a major body of creative work.
This writing project will be brand new – whether or not it follows on from a theme or genre established in the previous creative writing modules – and will give you a clear sense of writing aims and expectations in the production of an original manuscript of 15,000 words that is accompanied by an Introduction OR Reflective Essay of 3,000 words.
The Creative Writing Dissertation gives you the opportunity to utilise all creative, aesthetic and scholarly resources that are relevant to the completion of your manuscript and its accompanying introduction.
At the end of the period of writing and study in your area you will have gained the confidence and sense of ability that comes with postgraduate research activity.
This alone sets your creative practice in a serious, objective context that is a proper indication of your sense of yourself as a writer and artist – and gives you, upon completion and presentation of your MLitt Creative Dissertation, a literary example that you can use as an marker for all other creative and intellectual work that may follow.
The writing of the Dissertation, or Manuscript, will be led by individual supervision - guiding you along the way in all aspects of writing, editing and completion of a piece of creative work.
There will be three individual supervisory meetings throughout the semester, supplemented with feedback provided by email.
Assessment comprises both submission of creative work and an essay or introduction reflecting how that work sits within a cultural and literary context - and breaks down as follows:
To be submitted at the end of Semester:
You should have successfully completed Modules for MLitt Study including "Creating Writing" at the University of Dundee.
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