Text type: travel writing
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What is travel writing?
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A first-person account bringing a place alive through sensory detail and voice.
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Why does the writer's voice matter?
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Their personality colours the place and shapes our experience of it.
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Why use sensory description?
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Sights, sounds and smells put the reader right there in the place.
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What is observation + reflection?
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Noticing the place AND what the writer thinks or feels about it.
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Name three travel-writing features.
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Sensory description, a personal voice, and selected telling detail.
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Why select one telling detail?
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A single vivid detail brings a scene alive more than a full list would.
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First question to ask of travel writing?
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‘How does the writer make me feel this place and their response to it?’
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Travel writing vs a guidebook?
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A guidebook informs plainly; travel writing shares a personal, felt experience.
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What tones can a travel voice take?
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Dry, awestruck, weary, curious — the voice shapes how we feel the place.
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Common travel-writing analysis mistake?
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Listing the sights instead of analysing the detail and voice that convey experience.
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