Unit 3 Travel journal 许多人都会用旅行写作来记录自己的旅行经历，那到底什么是旅行写作呢？让我们一起来了解一下吧！What Is Travel Writing?Before we discuss what travel writing is, perhaps we should say what it isn’t. Travel writing isn’t writing about your family’s vacation. It isn’t writing about what you liked or didn’t like about your last trip. And it definitely(明确地) isn’t writing about destinations(目的地) that you can travel for free.Travel writing is writing about places, persons and things in other places (also writing about how to travel, when to travel, and advice on travelling—all with readers in mind). It’s about relaying(传递) your travel experiences to others so that they may follow them or at least not make the same mistakes as you did. And it’s writing about things in your own backyard that are different to everyone else—a local farmer’s market, historic site, restaurant, museum, etc.Before we go further into travel writing, we need to take a look at the readers that will read what you say about a place. There are three parts in the communication process—the sender (the writer), the receiver (the reader), and the message. When you were in school, you subconsciously(潜意识地) learned that the writer was the most important part of the process because in academic(学术的) writing, that’s the case. But in general writing, including travel writing, the reader is the most important part of the process. If a writer doesn’t think about the reader before writing, the reader will be less interested or might possibly not understand what the writer is saying.How did travel writing begin? Travel has a long history. People have always travelled from ancient caravansaries( 旅 行 商 社 ) to...
