School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsThe Writing Self: Issues in Writing & PublishingWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100585.2
Discipline: WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
This unit examines the self as it is composed in the broad field of writing, and different ways of thinking about what makes us who we are and how we write ourselves into being. We take the genre of autobiography and various writerly uses of autobiographical experience as a starting point for the development of students' own writing projects. We explore the importance of childhood and fantasy, dreams and current everyday experience as stimuli for writing, and what makes autobiography different from other genres, as well as how autobiographical elements are incorporated into other genres and modified through them.