Module Overview
The essay is fundamental to criticism that is literary and basic to assessment across your degree. However the essay can be a literary and popular-cultural genre in its own right, a form that marks the invention associated with individual together with compulsion to, as Virginia Woolf puts it, throughout the course of this module, you certainly will both hone your own personal skills as literary writers currently talking about and weigh up the historical and thematic proportions associated with the essay as a form. You can expect to explore the eccentricities and paradoxes of essay-writing across history, through culture, from its origins within the century that is sixteenth popular journalism andin our very own time. In performing this, you will definitely look closely at choices of writing style, rhetoric, evidence, and which can be fundamental to succeeding in and enjoying our discipline, and to our act as critical readers and individual writers.
Module Details
Aims and Objectives
Module Aims
The aims for this module are to: • develop your own writing and enjoyment of writing; • assess various techniques for constructing arguments; • locate and evaluate primary and research material that is secondary.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, it’s possible to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
