Handout 3 Flashcards
is a diverse genre, and it has various amount of types.
Travel writing
This aims to promote, market, serve and help travelers and tourists have better traveling experiences. Readers of commercial travel writing consume it for its information. This category often ties to the travel and tourism industry.
Commercial Travel Writing
This aims to entertain its readers. Readers consume it for pleasure and aesthetics instead of its practical insights. Literary travel writing can be a book, memoir, poem, journal, diaries, personal essays, and other experimental
Literary Travel Writing
These are brochures, booklets, pamphlets, and other written and published materials to help people visit a particular area.
Promotional
These are articles that inform interested travelers and tourists about interesting places or topics. You need to target potential travelers, but your objective is not to convince them.
Informative Articles for the Tourist
These are articles aimed at conveying travel information to the traveling public’s growing segment.
Articles Aimed at the Business Traveler
This is meant to carry the news to the travel trade members, including travel agents, tour operators, people from the government tourism offices, airlines, hotels, among others. Its purpose is to disseminate travel information.
Travel-trade Reporting
are the people who like to read travel articles but do not want or cannot travel.
Articles for the Armchair Travelers
as the word suggests, it is a description of the place you have visited.
Descriptive
just like descriptive, this style will give a linear account of when you went and what happened.
Narrative
gives a detailed description and explanation of a visit to a place.
Expository
this style will give an account of your personal feelings and reactions to a place. How you felt, what you saw, etc.
Introspective
this is writing an account of your travels after you come back home. Everything will be seen through your memory. Several details may not be very sharp or very correct.
Reminiscent
these are day-to-day accounts of your travel noted down in a diary. Travel account may be jottings and can be expanded later.
Diary form
Start by capturing your readers’ attention. The beginning shapes the mind of the readers about what they are going to read.
Writing a compelling start
Stories organized along chronological, narrative lines will focus on selected moments about travels to draw out the most important aspects of the writer’s story.
Organizing the middle section
they give your piece coherence. It ensures that your story follows logically from one step to the next, and they make sure you don’t lose your reader along the way.
Making transitions
Three (3) intricately linked things must be done at the end of your article: carry your piece’s emphasis to a satisfactory conclusion, tie the story back to its beginning, and deliver the reader back to the world.
Making a narrative closure
We typically select a writing style based on who we think our reader is. Before you write, understanding your audience can make the writing process better because it simplifies the choices you have to make.
Choosing an audience
What does your audience believe? Although you may belong to the same general category as your intended readers, believing that your readers already agree with you or understand the material you are trying to express is often a mistake.
Writing for an audience
transports readers to new places, and it informs them about the place, culture, and people, among others. It can also inspire others to explore, try new things, and appreciate different cultures. Starting to write your travel articles can be challenging, especially knowing where you should start.
Travel writing
Before writing a travel article, think about the things you visited on what you want to write. If you want to focus on sustainability, you should try to spread awareness on how to be a mindful traveler. Your writing approach will also depend on what you value the most.
Understand why you’re writing
It should make the reader feel like they are next to you on the powdery beach with a warm breeze tickling their shoulders. They should be able to taste the curry, rich with coconut milk, lime, and lemongrass. They should be able to hear the chaos of the city traffic and smell the sewage wafting from the grimy streets.
Own your article
Every type of writing has different conventions. There is a thing that is expected and agreed upon as best practices for space.
Practice the rules of travel writing
There are drafts before an article/blog is published.
Edit your article
Adding cliches to your articles makes them stale, rather than engaging the readers. Diederichs advised that
“Everyone has their own experiences and voice. Tell your story, and don’t copy others.”
Do not consider clichés
Your writing should sound like you, and your unique insight should show that. And the more you write, the more confident you will become and your expertise in writing travel articles.
Be confident in your abilities
Practicing your travel writing skills is a vital part of honing your craft. To be a better writer, it is good to build your skills by practicing your writing skills.
Learn and improve
A good travel article doesn’t need to focus solely on expectations and beauty. It’s all about your experiences and taking your readers to somewhere new and unexpected.
Remember: Travel isn’t always beautiful
