Travel Writing Reflecting on Your Study Abroad Experience

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

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

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

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