Posted: September 16th, 2017

Required: A subscription to the Wall Street Journal. Special summer subscription information can be found athttps://student.wsj.com/.

Required: A subscription to the Wall Street Journal. Special summer subscription information can be found athttps://student.wsj.com/.

Course Objectives:
The objective of this course is to develop writing and analytical skills for economics. The course provides an opportunity to write critical analysis essays.

Course Requirements:
a. The first assignment is a short paper written in the style of a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal. Consult current issues of the Wall Street Journal for potential topics and to see how

to present a brief and cogent argument (read several letters for reference).

The letter should take a position on an economic topic recently discussed in the Wall Street Journal and provide

evidence to support that position.  The letter can be in response to another letter, an opinion piece or some current event issue.  The text must be between 200 and 400 words in length.  This

paper is worth 100 points.

FORMAT.
Each paper should be submitted as a Word file.  Do not submit in odt or other formats because the papers are checked by turnitin.com and this program will not read these formats.  Use 12 pt.

type (Times New Roman font) with 1.25 inch right and left margins and 1 inch top and bottom margins.  Double space the paper, left justify and do not leave lines between paragraphs (10 pt

spaces after a sentence adds a line to the paragraph).

Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the course.  You may not copy any work by anyone else or have anyone else write the paper for you.  You may not submit work that you did for other

courses.  The originality score given by turnitin.com is used to monitor plagiarism but other information may be used to determine whether or not the paper is the original work of the student

who has submitted it.