Writing reviews

Have developed your skills as a critic/reviewer; enhanced your appreciation of the various art forms and the techniques employed by the best reviewers in their fields; and exercised and improved your critical faculties both in respect of your own writing and the work of others.

All published textual examples of review writing for class discussion will be provided to students. Students should bring a notebook and pen or laptop or whatever tool they prefer for the making of notes.

Each class will include analysis and discussion of outstanding examples of critical work across various art forms. Students will be required between classes to produce written work for presentation and discussion in class, the volume of this work dependent on class size; and they will need to consume books, films, performances keenly in their own time in order to have material for these writing exercises.

All writing courses at City Lit will involve an element of workshop. This means that students will produce work which will be discussed in an open and constructive environment with the tutor and other students. The college operates a policy of constructive criticism, and all feedback on another student’s work by the tutor and other students should be delivered in that spirit.

For classes longer than one day regular reading and writing exercises will be set for completion at home to set deadlines.