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Future Travel Writers Take Note: It's Time to Register for Summer Workshops in Maine

Here's one way to find out if we really have a dream job. Sign up for travel writing workshops in Easternmost Maine.

May 7, 2003 -- One of our long-time contributors, Robert Haru Fisher, will be conducting a class on travel writing for the third year in the town that calls itself the easternmost city in the United States -- Lubec, Maine. Self-styled as "the place where America greets the sun," Lubec is known for its gorgeous scenery, its proximity to famed Campobello Island in Canada (across a short bridge), and for its pleasing lack of things modern -- like traffic lights and movie houses.

Bob has been teaching a similar class every February in Key West for the past ten years (like any sensible traveler, he heads north in the summer and south in the winter). There will be three groups of classes, each with the same curriculum. There are two weekend sessions starting on Friday evenings, August 15 or August 22, 2003. The Friday evening orientation reception will be followed by four hours of classes on each Saturday and Sunday (two in the morning, two after lunch). For details of the curriculum, go to the winter workshop's website, www.heritagehousemuseum.org. Tuition for these August weekend classes is $375.

A single weeklong session runs from Monday to Friday, August 18-22, 2003. The curriculum is the same, but classes will meet daily from 10 to 12 only, so there will be plenty of time to explore the marvelous coastline, visit neighboring Canada or hike along "Bold Coast" trails. This format also allows for a greater amount of time to write with less pressure to produce than the weekend sessions, and provides opportunities for individual tutoring sessions. The program starts on Sunday evening, August 17, with an orientation reception. Tuition is $400.

Technical Writing, Too

Jim Johnson, an instructor and technical writer who has written four textbooks, will be teaching one intensive weekend course and one weeklong course in this art. Jim, who has sold hundreds of technical magazine articles as well as writing and developing over 50 technical training videos, offers the weekend course on June 21 and 22, 2003, and the weeklong course from June 23 to 27, 2003. Tuition for each course is $395.

Topics include planning for the reader; stages of development in technical writing; incorporating graphics; developing instruction manuals; textbook development; magazine articles; training video format; and oral presentations of technical information. The program is intended "to demystify the technical writing process for writers, students, engineers and technical professionals involved in sales and customer service."

To enroll in any of these courses, contact Denise Plouffe, the institute director, at denplffe@aol.com or dueeast@gwi.net.


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