Es Wall Street Journal and/or The Economist (500 word minimum)
While students are studying a given chapter, they should also be reading the Wall Street
Journal and/or The Economist (WSJ/TE, obtained via the Internet) looking for articles that relate to the chapter material. For each chapter, students have the opportunity to write a minimum of 500 word short essay relating a WSJ/TE article to the chapter.
Students will be evaluated based on ALL of the following:
- How well the chapter was summarized.
- How well the article was summarized, and
- How well the student related the two. Simply paraphrasing the article is not acceptable.
Carefully follow the instructions below:
- Students should begin by providing the URL to the article found on the Internet.
- The articles should come from issues between the first day of the semester and the due date for assignments.
- Each paragraph should be written single space but there should be at least one blank line separating the paragraphs.