Structure and Space in Place Writing - Work-Out
This workshop focuses on opening your travel piece with a section of place writing to engage your readers. It gives you the opportunity to engage fully with the town or city you are working in, and to understand how the opening scene can let you structure the whole piece you are writing.
Working in the field gives you chance to collect field-notes that you will refer to when completing your write-up. Field-notes, well documented with date, time, place and the local names of particular buildings and neighbourhoods lends authenticity to your writing and is more helpful for your readers when they visit the place you describe, please see Mansfield (2015b). Please see new eBook below...
References
Mansfield, C. (2019) Methods for Travel Writers, Plymouth: Google Play Book Store
Mansfield, C. and Potočnik Topler, J. (2023). Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place Writing Methodologies. Abingdon: Routledge. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1032014695/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_JCNW9AD6D3XX0V7KESX3
Mansfield, C. (2015b) Carnet de Bord of Angers and Tours by Train April 2015, Plymouth, TKT, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4247.3449 [online] Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277567143_Carnet_de_Bord_of_Angers_and_Tours_by_Train_April_2015 [Accessed: 13.9.2015].
This informative and practical volume will be of great interest to students of tourism marketing, destination marketing, place branding, travel writing, as well as current creators of commercial tourism marketing and information content. Lecturers, too, will find it an excellent course book in tourism discourse practices, with details on assessing literary work.
Full information sheet available on Google Docs at
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