Posted: December 2nd, 2014

Cultural Geography Learning Essay:

Cultural Geography Learning Essay:

In a Microsoft Word document, write a 500-600 word self-reflective “learning essay” in which you summarize and evaluate what you have learned about the cultural

geography of the place (i.e., country) that you have studied over the course of this semester for the first three assignments.  The format of this learning essay

should be based on that used for an “I-Search” paper.  Therefore, it should have the following three sections, each of which addresses the topics mentioned below:
The Search Story – What you already knew, what you wanted to learn, and how you went about learning it.  For our purposes, this should include the following:
Engage the reader’s attention and interest; explain why learning more about this place was personally important for you—i.e., why was this one of the places that you

chose to study for this course?
Explain what you already knew about the place before you even started researching.
Let readers know what you wanted/hoped to learn about the cultural geography of this place and why.
Retrace your research steps by describing the search terms and sources you used.  In our case, this means retracing the highlights of what you did for each of the

first three assignments.  Discuss things that went well and things that were challenging.
Search Results – What you learned.
Summarize at least 3 specific examples of the things that you learned about the cultural geography of this place that either addressed one of the topics you

wanted/hoped to learn or that you simply found most interesting or important to share with others.
Give support for each of these examples by citing at least one piece of information regarding it that you included in one of the previous assignments (e.g., a fact,

figure, picture, graph, etc.).  Note: Feel free to also include information that you might have learned from our textbook or other course materials or that you have

found by doing your own additional research about the place.
In addition, you should include ONE (and only one) image to represent/illustrate each of these examples (i.e., you should include a total of 3 images).  These images

may be a photograph, map, or graph.
Search Reflections (i.e., “How this learning is significant to you personally, why you think it might be significant to others, and what you would still like to learn

about it”)
Discuss how/why what you learned from your research experience is significant to you, personally, and why you think it might be important for others to know.
Evaluate how the information you have gathered for these assignments has changed your original perceptions of the cultural geography of this place.
Briefly discuss what you would still like to learn about this topic/place.
In addition, be sure to include a Bibliography page at the end of your document that provides an alphabetical listing of ALL of the sources that you used throughout

the semester for your place assignments.  Do not forget to include any that you may have consulted for completing this final assignment, as well.

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