Research and New Performance Writing

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2014:

120 Hours

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This seminar subject is designed to enrich writers' understanding of investigation and research in the context of extended writing projects. Students will engage with a range of contemporary Australian and international trends in writing for performance, focusing on practices of investigation and reflection, with a view to structural and formal innovation. Guest writers from a diverse range of contemporary contexts and communities in Australia will discuss their processes and approaches to the creation of new forms. The subject also focuses on different forms of inquiry, arts practice as research, and research into the arts, discussion and presentation of research by current practitioners/researchers, and detailed information sessions on library databases and resources, research grant applications, copyright and human ethics processes. Students examine research approaches in the larger context of social, cultural and post modernist perspectives.

On completing this subject students will be able to:
• demonstrate an ability to interpret and analyse writing for performance in the context of professional practice, and within both a broader cultural field and a body of contemporary and classical ideas;
• demonstrate the capacity to develop and design theoretical frameworks and research processes appropriate to writing projects involving new forms;
• demonstrate skills in the gathering and organisation of research materials;
• demonstrate an understanding of human ethics, copyright issues and the effective use of library databases and other resources;
• effectively document the creative process.

Individual oral presentation of 10 minutes duration followed by submission in written form (1,000 words) 25%

2 x written tasks (one of 1500 words, one of 2500 words) 25% and 50%

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completing this subject students will be able to:

• demonstrate the capacity to evaluate and synthesise data and other information;
• demonstrate an ability to access data and other information from a range of sources;
• demonstrate an advanced ability to discourse on artistic practice in the context of wider aesthetic, social and historical domains;
• demonstrate an ability to apply relevant research processes to specific cultural practice.
• demonstrate the ability to communicate in oral and written form;
• demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking.