Travel Writing

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Travel Writing

• Reflecting on Your Study Abroad Experience

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Travel Writing Tips

• Use specific and concrete imagery to make the
  experience come alive for the reader
• Choose representative imagery
• Pick the most interesting events avoid laundry
  list accounts
• Reflect on how your experiences
• Differed from expectations
• Shaped your view of the world
• Changed your impressions of the place

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Travel Writing Process

• Choose the most interesting or unexpected event
  from the day
• Build your writing around a narrative structure
• Write about the images that stick out most in
  your memory
• Stack the deck by including in your narrative the
  things you will reflect upon

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Exercise

• Following these tips and suggestions, compose a
  brief narrative about finals week.

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