Question: Please answer one question per tutor. I have attached rubrics as well. I want to talk about the country, Seoul for this assignment. Introduction: Imagine
Please answer one question per tutor. I have attached rubrics as well. I want to talk about the country, Seoul for this assignment.
Introduction:
Imagine that I - Prof. Mel - am visiting you wherever you are living while you are taking this online Spring course. I am very excited to visit you and I've asked that you spend an (imaginary) day showing me some local places of cultural significance. We can travel by car, walking or public transit - it's your choice. What five places would you take me to in an afternoon? If I also asked you to prepare a document that I can keep with information about the five sites, what would you include in this document? This Local Cultural Showcase is exactly such a document: A profile of five sites wherever you are living right now (or the place that you know best, such as your usual place of residence, your place of birth, wherever you are working this term, etc.) featuring research about their cultural significance. This assignment combines an opportunity for you to develop your research skills while also flexing your creative muscles by developing a piece of writing that is visually appealing and exciting to behold with lots of informative content to teach a reader about a local cultural geography of your choosing.
Learning objectives:
This Local Cultural Showcase is designed support a variety of learning objectives articulated in the course outline:
? Time management
? Composing clear, effective, and evidence-based written communication
? Secondary source research (drawing from texts such as books, articles and archival materials to create an
original piece of writing)
We also hope that you'll enjoy addressing some of our learning objective questions in an indirect way:
? What does it mean to study the environment and society? What does a geographical lens contribute to this
study?
? What is human geography and how do geographers think about culture, cities, politics, and the
environment?
Further description and details:
This Local Cultural Showcase offers you the opportunity to learn about, and present, the cultural, social and historic significance of a particular place of your choice. You are considering its social-cultural geographic past, present and future. In other words, what makes each of your sites culturally, socially and/or historically significant? For whom, and why? To answer these questions, you are the researcher and author, designing a document that I (Prof. Mel) might enjoy reading as you and I spend a day traveling around the sites within your chosen place.
The written portion of your document should be 2,500-3,500 words (this does not include your title page or
reference list)
? Students typically dedicate one or two pages (a two-page spread, for example) to each site in their
document and they typically format it as a booklet. Stylistic choices about text placement, margins,
etc. are up to you but you must break up your main ideas for each site into manageable paragraphs
with topic sentences. You may not write one, gigantic paragraph per site - it will be far too long!
? Originality: Your writing must be your own and you must provide citations for all work that you reference in
your local cultural showcase. Do not copy text from other sources and reproduce it verbatim without
presenting it as a direction quotation. This is about academic integrity, so please review McMaster's
Academic Integrity Policy or consult with Prof. Melanie if you are concerned about upholding academic
integrity. Not referencing the work of others is another form of academic dishonesty and will be handled
appropriately.
? Fonts: Please use a standard font, such as Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, Calibri, Arial, etc., in 11 or 12
point so that we can read your work easily.
? Spacing: Please use single spacing (not double-spacing) in your document.
? Page numbers: Please include page numbers in your document.
? Leave time to proof-read your work and check for spelling and grammatical errors. A portion of your
assignment grade is for writing quality and style.
? Final format: Assignments must be submitted in either Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF formats
Components of your showcase document:
? Title page: Develop a catchy title and imagery; include your name, student number, course code, etc.
? Introduction: Please introduce Prof. Mel (your reader) to the place we'll be touring together. What are some
initial points you'd like her to know? Use lively, creative language to help her feel excited about this
upcoming trip. Why have you chosen this area and what are you most excited about? What should Prof. Mel
pay attention to on this journey together? Is there background information you'd like her to know before we
get started?
? Detailed descriptions of your five sites: As you guide Prof. Mel through our afternoon together,
include information and commentary about each of the five sites, such as their characteristics,
important information and significance. Remember, you are helping your reader to appreciate each
site's significance, which can mean its significance to its neighbourhood or community, its city or rural
place, and/or to a group or groups of people (a group could be defined on the basis of ethnicity,
gender, age, class, culture, religion or much more so do your research and really consider this question
of significance carefully).
? Name and address: Note the name and street address of each site.
? Illustrations: Please include at least one illustration (i.e., photograph) to accompany the
description of each site. Your illustrations can also include drawings, maps and historic/archival
photographs.
? In-text citations: Your information about the sites will come from research, so it is important
to use in-text citations in APA format to display the source of your information to your reader.
In-text citations will often look like this: (McIntosh, 2002), (City of Hamilton, 2018), or (Xu &
Kim, 2025) and are typically placed at the end of the relevant sentence.
? Brief conclusion: End your document with a few sentences of meaningful ideas as Prof. Mel concludes
her time with you. What are some final thoughts you want her to think about after the tour is done?
Do you have any big, summative thoughts about the past, present and future of this neighbourhood?
Please write them out here.
? Reference list: As research is an important component of this assignment, you need to include a page
listing all the references you used in conducting your research (this page will not count towards the
word limit). Your reference list must be correctly formatted in APA style.
Choosing and researching your sites:
The five sites are up to you. It is important that information about your sites is publicly available, so choose them carefully. You should have success researching any of the following types of sites:
A park
A downtown or commercial/main street area with a unique history
A government building
A library, theatre or museum
A monument or historic site
A mosque, synagogue, church, temple or other place of worship
A community centre or other public building
A school
A business (for example, a well-known restaurant, bookstore, etc.)
A place of spiritual or religious significance (that is not a place of worship)
A site of cultural significance to a local population (for example, a community garden, a gentrifying
neighbourhood, a site of First Nations significance, etc.)
You can choose other sites than these; our list is just to help you get started. You can choose a maximum of TWO of the same type of site (for example, two parks, two churches or two historic sites), but your research and commentary should be unique. Otherwise, the reader will become bored reading about two very similar sites with similar significance.
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