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The main aim of this module is to introduce you to the theory and practice of stylistics; and then to creative writing. The module is structured into four sections. The first section is about ‘Understanding style and stylistics’. It provides you with background on the concepts of style and stylistics, the nature and goals of stylistics as well as types of stylistics. The second section ‘Stylistic analysis’, introduces you to different scholars’ views on the term analysis. We shall see analysis through the essential levels of linguistic description of a text. These include the phono-graphological, the syntactic and the lexico-semantic levels. It also introduces you to cohesion and coherence as well as foregrounding. Section three, ‘Literary techniques’, provides different literary techniques used in literature. The fourth section ‘creative writing’ introduces you to theory and practice of creative writing