ENG 1030

Travel Memoir

2-3 pages

MLA formatting (Purdue OWL)

Overview

You will write a memoir telling a story from your own life. The story that you choose must be centered around travel of some sort. Choose an experience that has been particularly influential in your life. There are many ways you can approach this topic:

- A trip abroad for the first time

- Returning to a place you visited as a child and finding it has changed, or you have changed

- Visiting a neighboring community for the first time and finding it shockingly different than your own community

- An impactful trip with school

Narrative AND Analysis

Your memoir should be made up of two components: a narrative and analysis. These two pieces can be interwoven or done in two separate chunks. Your memoir must narrate from your own firsthand experience traveling and discuss why it is so important to you using descriptive details, dialogue you recall from the trip, and your own commentary that support your analysis of the experience.

Travel Memoir Rubric	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor/Missing
Final draft 2-3 pages (5)
Contains an engaging, coherent narrative (25)
Employs at least 3 of the writing shots (20)
Explains the importance of the trip (15)
Analyzes specific details and their impact (10)
MUGS (mechanics, usage, grammar, spelling) (10)

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