POSTGRADUATE

ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK FORM

Student Details:
Surname: Vidal Nolte
First Name: Marcia

Date: 31st January 2022

Unit and Assessment Details:

Unit Title: Principles of Dramatic Writing 1
Assessment task/ Critical Reflection – Radio
element:

General Comments (referring to unit learning outcomes and assessment criteria)

First marker:

In this critical reflection, you critique the genre tropes present within your radio scene, using
written feedback from your tutorial, playwriting theory and the Benign Violation Theory of
Comedy.

Your levels of intellectual engagement are good and you demonstrate detailed research.
This is an ambitious critical reflection that makes a number of points, and demonstrates a
good awareness of the breadth of the creative decisions made in the course of the work of a
professional writer, including genre, tone, dialogue, and audience reception.

Going forward, this work would be improved by unpacking the theory that you cite more
clearly, and using it to analyse specific examples from your scene. For example, you might
choose a particular comedic line, and explain what the implicit perceived threat is, and how
this threat is made benign for the spectator. Similarly, you might explain Edgar’s terms
“project” and “reversal” using your own language, and find specific examples of the projects
and reversals in your scene, using these to critique your scene’s adherence to Edgar’s
crime genre criteria.

Overall, this work demonstrates good progress in writing techniques relevant to this unit, as
outlined in the tick boxes below. The work is of a good standard and is, on several
occasions, equivalent to professional practice at the forefront of its field.

Ways to improve your work

First marker:
- Unpack the technical terms that you cite in order to demonstrate your mastery of
them, and to make explicit how they are relevant to your creative writing
- Revisit the formatting guidelines for quotations and bibliographies, so that it is clear if
you are citing an article or a book

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Assessment Criteria
(Staff to remove those assessment
criteria not used for this unit or tick
N/A)

40-49%

50-59%

60-69%

70-79%
0-39%

80%+

N/A
sustained, independent written
X
argument;
progress in relevant practice-based
X
techniques;
taking creative risks, selecting and
X
implementing from these appropriately;
originality in the application of
knowledge in relation to the matter of X
the unit;
analytical and critical awareness of
X
relevant contemporary issues;
intellectual engagement; X
understanding and effective use of
X
research and advanced scholarship;
recognising practice that is at the
X
boundaries of the specialism;

successful collaborative processes; X

tackling and solving problems and

dealing with complex situations in X
professionally-related environments.

Add further, specific unit assessment details here, if relevant:

Agreed Provisional Mark: 61

Note:
 this mark is provisional and could be changed following moderation by the Board of
Examiners.
 This mark does not reflect any capping or mark reduction that may be applied for
late submission, retrieving a failed assessment or academic misconduct.