“Spring Tourism” — New York City Experience. This assignment requires students to visit and to write about their experience at a “major special event” or visit to a “key tourist attraction”. This assignment provides students the opportunity to assess a “tourist” experience from a variety of perspectives. This paper must include an introduction. It must also include a description of all relevant details associated with the “tourist” experience. This description should include where and when your experience took place and and who accompanied you, how you traveled to the “event or “attraction”. It should also include an overview of what you did before and after the event or the visit to the attraction or event. It should conclude with an overview of what you learned from completing this assignment. The assignment should make use of headings and sub-headings for all relevant sections. This assignment should follow the same procedures as all other writing assignments prepared for this course .( 7 pages)
Travel Writer: Students who select this option should approach this assignment from the perspective of a travel writer with interest in a career in travel writing. This option includes the following components:
A Travel Story focused on your “major tourist attraction” or “special even” experience. This should include all of the information necessary for the “reader” to understand the writer’s experience with the event or attraction. The format and length of the story should be appropriate for the newspaper or magazines that you identified in later sections of the report.
In addition, this option should include: (1) a review of three examples of travel writing focused on a visits to tourist attraction or special event (including the bibliographic citation);
the identification and review of three potential newspapers or magazines that would be appropriate venues for the publication of the story of your “experience” to include an overview of readership; and
Biography of the travel writer (that is you).
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