Phil Druker/ Department of English/ UI

 

Travel Writing (English 404)

9:30- 10:45  Tuesday/ Thursday.  Spring 2008

Instructor: Phil Druker
                Department of English
                Office Hours: T/Th: 3:30-5, Wed: 9:00-11
                Brink 204

Course description-- is this course for you?

Course Syllabus

ARTICLES: find articles for this semester's Travel Writing course that are not in the course textbooks.  See the course syllabus or guidelines for the password to access these reserved articles or contact the UI Library Reserve desk at 885-6495.

 
Speakers/events:

Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival. The festival is Thursday, January 24th at 6:30 p.m. in the Borah Theatre (FUNDRAISER FOR MOSCOW MOUNTAIN CEDARS)

Michael Finkel:WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 7:30 P.M.TEACHING-LEARNING CENTER 040

Mary Blew-- Reading.  Feb 29. 7:30 Admin Auditorium

Tutxinmepu Pow Wow. March 21 (7pm-?)-22 (1pm- 7pm), UI Memorial Gym,

Native American Film Fest '08: Mar 26-29 (Kenworthy theather 7pm)

India Night: March 29, 5-8PM, Sub Ballroom.  Get tickets in the Commons.

Greg Mortensen + David Relin (Three Cups of Tea): April 3

Emma Larkin, Burma: Why should we care?  April 16,  7:30 lecture.

 

Creative non-fiction//travel writing principles:

Creative Non-Fiction Defined--find general information on creative non-fiction.

Creative Non- Fiction Goals--find more information on writing creative non-fiction.

Travel writing main principles

Travel writing continua

Sallie Tisdale’s Breakable Rules for Travel Writing

For the final assignment:

1. Cover letter for assignment 4.

2. Don't forget:  èFormatting an article for submission ç

3. Turn in your final article by 4:PM, May 1,  Phil Druker's Mailbox, Brink 201

 
 

 

Assignment 2:

--The assignment + Assignment criteria
--Query letter for Assignment 2
--Workshop questions (print this for class and bring written (brief) responses to discuss

 

Assignment 3:
--Query letter for assignment 3

++ Workshop questions. Print this for class and bring brief written responses to discuss in the workshop

 

Assignment 4

>> Workshop questions. Print this for class and bring brief written responses to discuss in the workshop

 

Citing Sources:
Citing Sources in-text (APA style)
References Section (APA style)-bibliographic form APA style

 
Sentence Style:
Punctuation Style/Readability Correct Grammar
Capital Letters Be verbs Comparisons
Colons :  Passive Sentences  Parallelism
Commas , Wordiness Subject-verb agreement
Semicolons ;  Nominalizations Pronoun agreement
     
     
     

Style/readability check for assignment 2.

 

Travel Writing History - an abbreviated timeline
Travel Books to read

 

Some links:

Places to publish and find jobs:
http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/detail.php?page_id=878&type_id=4
http://www.roughguides.com/website/aboutus/WorkForUs/Default.aspx
http://www.bradt-travelguides.com/infopage.asp?PageID=4

World Hum is a good Web site on travel writing and travel.
The New York Times Magazine has good travel articles.