Writing Well

Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:

Undergraduate

1. Identify key principles that make for excellent writing. 
2. Put into practice key principles of good writing. 
3. Understand style changes required to write effectively for different contexts. 
4. Know how to adapt their writing for different audiences. 
5. Understand how good writing assists key service objectives and theological expression.  

Postgraduate

1. Identify key principles that make for excellent writing. 
2. Put into practice key principles of good writing. 
3. Understand and demonstrate style changes required to write effectively for different contexts. 
4. Practise adapting their writing for different audiences. 
5. Understand and discuss how good writing assists key service objectives and theological expression. 

Undergraduate

• Document study (500 words) (20%)
• Portfolio (2 parts) (3,500 words) (80%)

Postgraduate

• Document study (500 words) (20%)
• Portfolio (2 parts) (6,500 words) (80%)

Set texts recommended for purchase are highlighted in blue

• Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 
• Barnet, Sylvan and William E. Cain, A Short Guide to Writing About Literature, 12th ed., rev. Melbourne: Pearson, 2013. 
• Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life. New York: Harper Perennial, 2013. 
• Doyle, Brian, ed. A Sense of Wonder: The World’s Best Writers on the Sacred, the Profane, and the Ordinary. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2016. 
• Kaplan, Bruce. Editing Made Easy: Simple Rules for Effective Writing. Hinesburg: Upper Access Inc., 2012. 
• Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. 
• Orwell, George. Why I Write. London: Gangrel, 1946. 
• Sword, Helen. Stylish Academic Writing. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 
• Williams, Joseph M. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. 
• Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. 7th ed., rev. New York: Harper Perennial, 2016.