Unit 5: Travelogue
Travelogue
- a piece of writing about travel
- a talk or a lecture on travel usually accompanied by a film or slides
- a narrated motion picture about travel
- a truthful account of an individual’s experiences traveling, usually told in the past tense
and in the first person.
Steps for Writing a Travelogue
1. Decide on the purpose of your travelogue.
2. While traveling, take notes about what you see, places you visit, and people you get
acquainted with.
3. Take as many pictures as possible.
4. When you return home, take time to review your recordings. Sort them out by date, personal
importance, or based on any other criteria.
5. Create an outline of your travelogue. The outline is necessary for you to structure your
thoughts and to see if the story flows logically and is easy to understand.
6. After you have completed the outline, write the full travelogue.
Common Mistakes when Writing a Travelogue
- Focusing only on factual information.
- Being excessively enthusiastic about describing your feelings and thoughts.
- Relying only on memories when writing a travelogue.
- Being too critical or too in awe.
REFERENCES:
www.merriam-webster.com
https://www.travelwritingworld.com/what-is-a-travelogue/
https://www.writeawriting.com/academic-writing/travelogue-a-short-guide/
https://academichelp.net/creative-writing/write-travelogue.html
Activity: Travelogue
Browse your phone’s picture gallery and look for photographs which feature a place you visited
in the past and write a travelogue about it.
Scoring Rubrics:
Criteria Points
Content 10
Organization (Flow of Ideas and Transitions) 5
Style (Sentence structure, wording, tone) 5
Grammar and Spelling 5
Total 25
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