This unit offers students opportunities to hone their skills as story tellers with a focus on travel narrative. By encouraging an examination of the conventions and techniques of different types of travel writing and facilitating an understanding of marketing strategies and publishing opportunities, this unit will also help raise and sustain industry standards. This unit recognizes that a travel writer can draw on local as well as foreign places to construct sound travel narratives, it is therefore offered to students regardless of how much they have travelled.
