Finals Checklist for Travel Writing

Your final requirement for our class is a portfolio. Your portfolio should include the writing you've done about our travels. As a reminder, you'll have one piece for each of the following experiences:

* The Max Vanka Murals in Millvale
* Pittsburgh's City of Asylum and the Northside/Randyland
* Pittsburgh's Strip District and Wholey's Fish Market
* Back to the Source: Judith Vollmer's Level Green and the Turtle Creek Watershed
* Andy Warhol's Pittsburgh
* The Writers Festival

Please polish each piece, revising with attention to things like audience and possible publication/markets, and compile them in a binder or folder. Please also include your Travel Journal as part of your portfolio (you may type your entries, if that's easier).

In addition to your individual pieces, please write a one-page, single-spaced statement about the effect the trips this term had on your personally and on your writing. (This is assuming they've had some effect. If they didn't affect you, write about that and why.) Consider things like which trip was the most important to you, which offered you the most opportunity for insight/reflection, which resonated with your own experiences and which were completely outside of your experiences, and more.

In order to receive an A, your portfolios must be complete, professional, and show the kind of luminous insights you've seen in the other travel writing we've covered this term.

The deadline for all materials is 5 p.m. on Friday, April 30. There will be a drop box outside of my office.

If you'd like to meet in conference before or during finals week, please let me know. I'm available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. and then after 5:30 p.m.

Happy revising/revisiting your journeys!