Your assignment is to write a 4-5 page immersion essay into a place or destination you know well. The place could be as big or small as you like (a beach, for instance, or a hotel or sports arena). The essay could be framed as a journey (with you arriving and departing). It should be written in first person to a broad audience and include a strong sense of place, vivid description and imagery, dialogue, and discovery.
Here are some questions to consider: What makes this place and its people unique? What do you like most about it? What does it have to offer? What doesn’t it have, or what do you wish it had? Why might someone who has never experienced this place want to go there? If you listen and observe closely enough, what might this place teach you about yourself and others?
A Note on Sources
Including sources can help the credibility (ethos) and also offer a broader context that can reach beyond the personal. That said, one approach might be to write a draft without the use of sources and then go back to see what parts (of that time and place you’re writing about) could be enhanced by a reference to an interesting fact, statistic, happening, insight, etc. The possibilities for incorporating relevant and insightful support are vast. Please use sources from credible websites, articles, books, etc. Also, feel free to use primary sources: interviews, photographs, surveys, etc.
Also, please note that you do not need to use all of the sources (that are not included in in-text citations) that you list on the Works Cited page as in-text citations. I’ll assume the other sources informed your essay in a more general way.
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