CJBC816 Academic and creative writing in English from the perspective of task-bar

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Viera Eliášová, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course focuses on the development of academic writing in English. Text creation competences are enhanced by the implementation of different creative approaches – an approach through creative writing techniques, a task-based approach and a problem-solving approach. The methods help develop learners’ autonomy mainly thanks to an action-based character of the activities, learner-centredness, raised self-engagement in the activities, attractiveness and a demanding character of activities. The main focus will be learning by doing – students will practise writing in a wide range of creative activities. After finishing the course the students will • get an overview of creative strategies and methods enhancing learners’ autonomy, • acquire some specific strategies of writing academic texts in English language, • learn some techniques enhancing general writing and creative competences, • be able to reflect critically on the creative process and creative products, • will be able to apply the learned knowledge and skills to their own academic and creative activities.
Syllabus
  • • synergy of language and creative methods, • techniques focused on problem finding and problem solving, • process-writing: the phase of generating ideas and the phase of focusing, • process-writing: the phase of structuring and arrangement, • process-writing: the phase of drafting, • process-writing: the phase of evaluating and re-viewing, • techniques enhancing flexibility, fluency and originality, • techniques developing lateral thinking, • techniques on text reduction, expansion and transformation, • text assessment.
Literature
  • NICKERSON, R. S. Enhancing Creativity. In Hanbook of Creativity. Edited by Sternberg, R. J. Cambridge : CUP, 1999.
  • ELIAŠOVÁ, V. Tvorivé písanie. Príručka pre učiteľov anglického jazyka. Bratislava : MCMB, 2001.
  • DAWSON, P. Creative Writing and New Humanities. London : Routledge, 2005.
  • ELIAŠOVÁ, V. This is the Muse Speaking, don't hang up, you are through… Creative Writing Handbook for English Language Teachers. Bratislava : MPCMB, 2003.
  • STERNBERG, R. J. Hanbook of Creativity. Cambridge : CUP, 1999.
  • ELIAŠOVÁ, V. Obsahové a metodické komponenty jazykového vzdelávacieho a certifikačného programu Unicert®. In Philologica LXI. Lingua academica. Zborník príspevkov učiteľov Katedry jazykov FiF UK v Bratislave. Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2008.
  • ELIAŠOVÁ, V. Tvorivé písanie a možnosti jeho využitia v edukačnej praxi. Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2011.
  • FISCHER, J. et al. Guidlines for fask-based university language testing. Graz : European Centre for Modern Languages, 2011.
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk, Dagmar DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Jitka CHOLASTOVÁ, Petr KUBĚNSKÝ, Pavla KOPEČNÁ and Zuzana ŠALAMOUNOVÁ. Tvůrčí psaní v literární výchově jako nástroj poznávání (Creative writing in literary education as a tool of cognition). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 226 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6121-7. info
  • ELIAŠOVÁ, Viera. Tvorivé písanie a možnosti jeho využitia v edukačnom procese. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2011, 186 s. ISBN 9788022330794. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní : malá učebnice technik tvůrčího psaní. Brno: Paido, 2001, 164 stran. ISBN 8085931990. info
Teaching methods
seminar, workshop
Assessment methods
Final assessment combines the evaluation of home assignments in the form of portfolio with critical reflection of the workshop processes in a form of oral interview.
Language of instruction
Slovak
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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