Professional Writing and Editing: Write Nonfiction Material

Content

Write nonfiction material prepares you for other nonfiction specialisations and introduces writing techniques you will use in a diversity of writing forms. You will explore some of the vast range of short writing forms that can be loosely grouped under the general term ‘non-fiction’. These may include summaries, letters, emails, web writing and blogs, reports, essays, memoirs, news stories, feature articles, reviews, interviews, media releases, résumés and job applications, and sets of instructions. The unit closely considers form, structure, style, audience and purpose.

Assessment

Four assessment tasks:

•Oral interview to discuss elements such as purpose, audience, form, scope and style

•Draft extract of a long-form non-fiction piece(1000 words)

•A finished long-form non-fiction piece(4000 words)

•A finished short-form non-fiction piece(2000 words).

The assessment burden of two finished pieces of writing (one 2000 words and one 4000 words) may initially seem daunting, but we run the unit alongside CUAWRT409 Write creative nonfiction material to allow you to use the same long-form and short-form pieces as  assessment in both units.