Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Wikitravel

The goals when using wikitravel is to provide a tour guide description of a place that I am familiar with. It is important to not advertise a place, rather describe the place as if I were to give a tour of my place.  It's more important to describe what you've learned at a place rather then describing what you did, though it is important to include what to do but do not describe your personal experiences with it.  Some important rules to follow is to make the tone of the article to be conversational to the right extent. This means to not talk in complete slang, but also do not be over formal to the point where the writing becomes boring and way more difficult to understand then needed.  Some other important factors to follow would be to avoid cliches, because that is all travelers hear, and they want to hear the truth.
Avoid putting in personal opinions and superlatives to describe certain events, activities, or places. The reason you do not want to do that is because not everyone has the same opinion on certain things, everyone does not enjoy the same things, and people do think all the same food tastes fantastic. The basic guideline wikitravel suggest would be:  1) Get in, which is how to get to this place and where it is located, 2) Get around, which would be if it is easy to travel around this area. 3) See, what is there to do at this location. 4) Eat, everyone loves a good meal, so make some suggestions that would satisfy a range of different foods. 5) Sleep, the location needs to have a place for people to sleep that is comfortable and convenient. These factors are all important for travelers and are the key components to an article. Then after one describes what to do in their location the next step would be to Get Out which is another way to tell the travelers where they could go to next. It is important to include this step because many times when people are traveling they are vacationing for more then then one or a few days, this step helps provide information on what to do next.

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