Length: 4-5 pages, not including any endnotes, bibliography, reference list, tables, or graphs.
Format: Double-spaced, in 12-point type, with 1-inch top and bottom margins and 1.25- inch left and right margins.
Choice of Reading: For each paper, you may select any one of the eligible readings (marked with an *).
The reading can be one that we have not yet covered in class at the time the paper is due. In your papers, you need to include your own analysis, rather than only reproducing what is in another reading or what is in your notes from class lectures.
Required Components:
A) synopsis of the author’s argument and summary of main points of the reading
B) critical analysis and review, including reasons and evidence for your views and identification of one strength and one weakness of the reading
C) two other questions sparked by the reading and historical evidence that might be used to answer them.
D) you also must attach a photocopy or printout of a page, table, or graph from a relevant source for each of the questions in C) above.
Approximate Length of Each Component: A) one page or less
B) two to three pages
C) one to two pages
Six pages is an absolute maximum for the text of the paper (not including any endnotes, bibliography, reference list, tables, or graphs).
Writing: Papers must have an introduction, body, and conclusion. Since these are short papers, introductions and conclusions probably will not exceed one paragraph each. Papers must have correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Use the Chicago Manual of Style citation format for any endnotes, bibliography, or reference lists, if your paper includes them. A “Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide” can be found at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.
If you use the author-date citation format for parenthetical references in the body of your paper, your reference list will include items arranged alphabetically by author(s), with the date of publication immediately following the author(s) name in the reference list.
III. Components
A. Synopsis of Argument and Summary of Main Points
Summarize the author’s main argument and provide a brief summary of main points the author makes in the article or chapter. What are the most important three points that a reader should take away from this reading?
You may find the discussion of abstracts in the book by Steven A. Greenlaw, Doing Economics (pp. 118-119) useful for this part of your paper.
B. Critical Analysis and Review
Discuss one important issue raised in the reading, giving reasons as to why you agree or disagree with the author on this issue. Support your argument with evidence from the reading and your own economic reasoning. Refer to specific pages in the reading.
As part of your discussion of this issue, identify at least one strength and one weakness of the author’s argument.
If you include notes, they should be endnotes rather than footnotes. If you use any sources other than the assigned reading (for example, to present evidence that contradicts the argument in the assigned reading), you must cite the sources either in endnotes or by using parenthetical citations in the text of your paper (using the author-date system).
Wikipedia is not an acceptable source for these scholarly papers, although it can be a very useful starting point and can help you to find more reliable sources of information.
The critical analysis and review should be your own work, not a quotation or paraphrasing of someone else’s analysis and review of the reading.
You may find chapter 6 in the book by Steven A. Greenlaw, Doing Economics, useful for this part of your paper. Note especially Tables 6.1 and 6.2, the discussion of them on pp. 110-116, and the discussion of critical reviews on pp. 116-119. Your critical review will be longer than the sample critical review on p. 119.
You also might want to look at the sections in chapter 4 of Greenlaw’s book on “The Structure of an Argument,” “Examining an Argument,” and “What Makes for a Persuasive Argument?” (pp. 51-57, 59-63).
C. Other Questions
Pose two historical questions that are sparked in your mind by this reading. What else are you curious to know more about as a result of the reading?
For each question, indicate what historical evidence might be used to answer it.
For each of the questions, provide a citation for a specific source you have consulted that includes relevant evidence.
If the source is an online source, it must be an official data source or archive, or a published journal article or book (i.e., not an unofficial web page or blog). For online sources, include the URL for the source as part of your citation.
Attach a photocopy or print-out of a page, table, or graph taken from each of the two sources to the hard copy of your paper that you submit in class. Include complete citation information for each source on the photocopy or printout. These pages will not count as part of the 4-5 pages of your paper.
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