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Reflective essay writing as a genre

Course

Creative Writing and the Reflective Essay

7.5 credits

Autumn / Spring

50%

Distance

This Bachelor’s level course focuses on the reflective essay as a genre and aims to provide you with practice in collecting themes and generating ideas. The course literature is used as a basis for collecting themes on which reflective essays are written. The students discuss each other's texts and rework their texts after feedback from their peers and the teacher.

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The art of textual communication The course provides skills that will be useful when working with all kinds of writing, such as insight into the writing process, developing themes and a structure, and analysing and reviewing other people's texts. Read about research in this subject
Reflective essay writing as a genre and the peer review process This introductory course examines the reflective essay as a genre of creative writing, describing the characteristics of essays and the process theory of writing. On the course, you will discuss and analyse texts, and formulate a reader response, as well as formulating a theme and writing a reflective essay based on the course literature. You will also practically evaluate your own and others’ strategic writing choices, as well as creative writing as a working method. Course design The course is built up around lectures, seminars, group assignments, and individual written assignments. Assessment is based upon active participation in seminars and your written assignments.
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