1. Title Page: Make a creative title for your essay.
2. The Introduction (around 200 words): here you introduce your topic, your cultural landscape or ethnic economy, and your outline (your research question and what your main arguments will be that will answer your research question). In-text citation is needed for all the assignment.
3. The Literature Review (around 450 words): here you will summarize all 9 researched articles and sources, highlighting how they are important to your argument.
4. The Research questions (around 450 words): here you summarize your research questions that you have already answered, what were the main findings from your background and observations. Include the 3 pictures (photos) with captions and sources or citation.
5. The Analysis (around 450 words): this is the meat and potatoes of your analytical essay where you link up your literature review with the research observation, using them to craft an argument about your cultural landscape or ethnic economy. These would be elaborated in your journal articles.
6.The Conclusion (around 250 words): here you conclude your essay by summarizing your argument, and your evidence.
7. Bibliography: here you have a list of your works cited, or the bibliography in full. You may use MLA, APA, Chicago, or Harvard (or another standard social science format). In-text citation is needed for all the assignment.
8. Appendix: here you attach the hand drawn map of your cultural landscape or ethnic economy research area.
3. Do your research on 3 newspaper articles on your topic. You can use the
Toronto Star (1894-2015, 1971-2016, 1985-2019), Toronto Sun, or Globe and Mail
(1936-2015, 1985-2019). If you find any other local newspapers, or international
newspapers writing on your place (reviews of restaurants for example), you can
also use those.
3.1. Summarize the findings of these secondary source articles in 140 characters (not words) each.
4. Do your research on 3 academic journal (peer-reviewed) articles on your topic. Use RULA or Google Scholar. They do not necessarily have to be from Toronto. You could examine Chinatowns in other cities or how Syrian refugees are creating their own local economies.
4.1. Summarize the findings of these academic or scholarly sources in 280 characters (not words) each.
5. Do your research on 3 popular media sources on your topic. These can be websites, non-academic (“coffee table”) books, songs, films, television shows, webisodes, etc.
5.1. Summarize the findings of these popular media sources in 140 characters (not words) each.
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