Professional Writing
Studying Professional Writing at Waikato teaches you high-level skills as a reader, writer and editor with excellent verbal, grammatical and analytical skills to excel your writing career.
The Master of Professional Writing offers a research-led and strongly practice-based qualification in professional and creative writing. The core paper is designed specifically to enhance the workplace readiness of graduates, and elective papers range across a variety of fields from creative writing to writing for promotional purposes and advertising, for digital media and for scholarly and professional publication.
Students have the opportunity to include a writing internship and all MPW students will be offered an on-campus professional writing mentor, who will provide professional advice and direct students towards on-campus writing opportunities. Candidates for the Creative Writing Thesis are selected on the basis of assessment of a portfolio of work; students accepted for the Creative Writing Thesis complete a book-length manuscript of publishable standard.
Key information
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Papers
Available Professional Writing papers
500 Level
| Code | Paper Title | Points | Occurrence / Location |
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| APPLN501 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics | 30.0 | 22A (Hamilton) |
| The overall aim of this paper is to provide students with a critical awareness of a range of issues and skills associated with carrying out research in the area of applied linguistics. | |||
| CWRIT594 | Creative Writing Thesis | 120.0 | 22X (Hamilton) |
| This paper will provide students the opportunity to devise, carry out and revise an independent and original creative writing manuscript, while receiving supervision and peer feedback within a creative workshop environment. Students are selected by portfolio assessment: application portfolios due by the first Friday in June. | |||
| LCOMM583 | Leadership, Communication and Transformation | 30.0 | 22A (Hamilton) |
| Our focus in this paper will be on leadership communication, or the ways leaders and followers interact and the ways leaders attempt to create and shape meanings through images and words. We will also explore a range of ideas about what it means to lead and the assumptions, beliefs, and values embedded and shaped in diverse leaders... | |||
| MEDIA501 | Critical and Creative Approaches to Research | 30.0 | 22A (Hamilton), 22A (Online) & 22B (Online) |
| This paper identifies the constraints and freedoms of research methods, and places a strong emphasis on research as an intellectual, theoretical, and processual activity as well as the roles of interdisciplinary projects in creating unique methodological and conceptual media research. | |||
| MEDIA507 | Theory and Research in Action | 30.0 | 22B (Hamilton) |
| Have you got a topic you are passionate about to research? This supervised paper provides students the opportunity to engage with primary texts in preparation for writing their dissertation. You will explore research design frameworks which will support the completion of a robust dissertation. | |||
| WRITE501 | Writing for Publication | 30.0 | 22A (Hamilton) |
| Writing for Publication will focus on writing for professional publication, examining the modes, standards and practices associated with different forms of published output. Students will read examples from a variety of fields, including fiction and creative non-fiction, writing for advertising and digital media, and scholarly/acad... | |||
| WRITE503 | Professional Writing Internship | 30.0 | 22X (Hamilton) |
| This paper allows students to gain professional writing experience in the workplace, under the guidance of an academic supervisor and the specialist supervision of a workplace mentor. | |||
| WRITE590 | Directed Study | 30.0 | 22A (Hamilton) & 22B (Hamilton) |
| This paper involves an independent but guided writing project on a topic of the student's choice. | |||
| WRITE591 | Dissertation | 30.0 | 22X (Hamilton) |
| This paper will provide graduate students with the opportunity to devise, carry out and revise a writing-focused dissertation, under appropriate supervision and guidance. | |||
| WRITE592 | Dissertation | 60.0 | 22X (Hamilton) |
| This paper will provide students with the opportunity to devise, carry out and revise an extended writing-focused dissertation, under appropriate supervision and guidance. | |||
| WRITE593 | Professional Writing Thesis | 90.0 | 22X (Hamilton) |
| This paper will provide students the opportunity to devise, carry out and revise an independent thesis focussed on a specialised field of writing studies, under appropriate supervision and guidance. | |||
| WRITE594 | Professional Writing Thesis | 120.0 | 22X (Hamilton) |
| This paper will provide students the opportunity to devise, carry out and revise an extended and independent thesis focussed on a specialised field of writing studies, under appropriate supervision. | |||
900 Level
| Code | Paper Title | Points | Occurrence / Location |
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| CWRIT900 | Creative Writing PhD Thesis | 120.0 | 22I (Hamilton), 22J (Hamilton), 22K (Hamilton) & 22X (Hamilton) |
| No description available. | |||
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