Creativity for Practice

This units lets you explore the key ideas around the identity and creative practice of the writer, including notions of the ‘writerly self’, current understandings of creativity and the relationship between subjectivity and reflection. This unit encourages you to reflect deeply and critically on the nature of your writing and to consider a range of methodologies that can help you map your development as a writer.


After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
1. Evaluate and critique a range of complex techniques and theoretical approaches for turning creative reflection into creative output.
2. Demonstrate a high level of creative and practical skill experimentation through the application of creative and critical approaches to documenting and managing creativity.
3. Create and maintain a substantial research-based writer’s journal that unites independent reflexive thinking about their creative practice with theorisations about the nature and critical practice of writing.