Labor force and unemployment

Essays should be double spaced, 12 point font, with a minimum of 500 words to a maximum of 1000 words. Print the word count at the end of the essay. On MS Word, the word count can be found in the status bar in the lower-left corner of the window. Articles can be chosen from: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Business Insider, The Washington Post, Fortune, Forbes, Time, NPR, Inc, CNBC, AP, Reuters, MarketWatch, U.S. News and World Report, the BBC, The Orlando Sentinel, or similar well respected, widely circulated news or business publication. Include a copy of the article with your essay.

Begin your essay by listing the class topics it covers. Then go on to describe how the article illustrates the topics.

DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE ARTICLE. Your essay should be about the topics, with the article used for examples.

The purpose of the essay is to connect the classroom theory to real world events and to help students see the many different situations in which economics and economic reasoning can be applied. This is not a research paper and does not need to be written in that formal, scholarly format. A more conversational approach is better.

Write as if you were telling someone a story in your own words about something interesting you just learned. However, any quoted material must be clearly identified with quotation marks. If you have mostly copied from the article, it may be returned to be rewritten because you didn’t write it in the first place.

Some quotes can be useful but THE PAPER SHOULD BE MOSTLY YOUR OWN WORDS. Note that you are not writing specifically about either the topic or the article. You are making the connection between them and writing about why the event in the article is a good example of the topic.

If these instructions are not followed your paper might be returned to be rewritten or have points deducted.