Creative Writing QLS Level 3

• Identify and explain a variety of reasons for writing
• Evaluate your experience of writing
• Analyse your writing style
• Identify and judge a time when to write
  
• Develop a plan for creative writing

• Identify different types of genres associated with creative writing and explain these
• Identify different types of sub-genres associated with creative writing and explain these
  
• Summarise the meaning of ‘conflict’ within creative writing
• Explain the term ‘critical analysis' as it applies to creative writing
• Recognise your reading preferences and critically compare the preferences of others
• Explain the genre of life writing
• Explain the sub-genre of a biography
• Interpret how to plot a biography

• Apply your skills in writing in the first, second and third person
  
• Explanation of the term ‘writing style’
• Explain the nature and purpose of dialogue
• Create a believable character and provide a character analysis
• Summarise tips to aid writing and be able to put these into practice in a piece of written work

• Critically compare different writing styles
• Analyse the genre and elements of the short story
  
• Demonstrate the skills needed to plot and write an excerpt from a short story, novel and life writing
• Evaluate the importance of locations in a novel
• Evaluate the skills needed to write a play
• Critically analyse different script layouts
• Demonstrate the ability to write a scene from a script for a stage play
• Summarise the important points in editing and proofreading and be able to edit a piece of your own work

• Apply your skills in writing poems in several forms, for example, a sonnet, rhyming verse and free verse
• Analyse the genre of writing for children
  
• Apply your skills in writing a poem for children
• Apply your skills in writing a short story for children
• Summarise the requirements of non-fiction writing
• Analyse journalism and be able to write a news story

• Produce a scene for a radio play, applying the required skills
  
• Demonstrate the skills needed to write a short story or a poem for radio
• Demonstrate the skills needed to write a script for TV
• Explain how to write to meet the requirements of a brief
• Summarise the structure of a radio feature
• Apply your skills in preparation of a piece of work for submission to a publisher

You will be assessed through a series of written assignments, which are submitted to your tutor for marking. No external examination is required.

You may start at any time and have up to a full year to complete your studies. We suggest that the course will take approximately 80 hours to complete. This is more than enough time to give you flexibility and work at your own pace without the pressure of deadlines.

The course is designed for study by distance learning at home or at work. Students will receive all course materials by post or online, as well as tutor support by email. So help is only a click away!

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).