Faculty of Education · Turkish Language Teaching · Undergraduate
Course Objective
The Creative Writing course aims to raise awareness about the nature and importance of writing skills, introduce the scientific foundations and characteristics of different approaches to writing education, and provide knowledge and experience regarding creative writing and how this approach can be used and evaluated in schools. Another objective of this course is to contribute to the development of students' own writing skills through conceptual and theoretical knowledge and practical applications.
Course Content
Within the scope of creative writing techniques, various methods and techniques will be used to eliminate writing anxiety, fear, and preconceptions about starting to write by using imagination, and ways of expressing feelings and thoughts through different genres will be conveyed. Students will learn about creative writing through written narrative evaluation criteria before, during, and after the writing process. Students will analyze various fictional texts in terms of their structural elements and will work on writing a fictional text.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Evaluates the importance of writing skills and writing education.
- Discusses the problems of writing education.
- Compares approaches to writing instruction.
- Recognizes the purpose, scope, and characteristics of creative thinking.
- Knows the basic principles of creative writing education.
- Creates creative text using process-based writing strategies.
- Applies creative writing techniques to different types of text.
- Develops creative writing activities.
- Compares ways of measuring and evaluating creative writing.
Core Area Distribution
Teaching Methods
Assessment & Evaluation
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Midterm | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| Practice | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is creative writing Free writing exercise | lecture notes |
| 2 | The importance and necessity of creative writing Free writing exercise | lecture notes |
| 3 | Process based writing method | lecture notes |
| 4 | Expression forms: Explanation and discussion | lecture notes |
| 5 | Expression forms: Description and narration | lecture notes |
| 6 | Elements of fictional texts: plot, time, place and characters. | lecture notes |
| 7 | Elements of fictional texts: Exercise of creating plot | lecture notes |
| 8 | ARA SINAV | ARA SINAV |
| 9 | Elements of fictional texts: Exercise of characters | lecture notes |
| 10 | Elements of fictional texts: Exercise of creating place | lecture notes |
| 11 | Elements of fictional texts: Exercise of creating time | lecture notes |
| 12 | Elements of fictional texts: Exercise of creating narrator and perspective | lecture notes |
| 13 | Elements of fictional texts: Exercise of creating different types of beginning and end. | lecture notes |
| 14 | Expression techniques | lecture notes |
| 15 | Poet types and poet analysis | lecture notes |
| 16 | DÖNEM SONU SINAVI | DÖNEM SONU SINAVI |