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ECO 359. 30 – Reading and Writing in Economics

Spring 2024

Course Description:

Provides opportunity to practice the skills and techniques of effective academic writing and satisfies the learning outcomes of the Stony Brook Curriculum's WRTD learning objective

COURSE OVERVIEW:

This fully online course will allow you to fulfill the writing requirement in the Economics major. In order to register in ECO359 you need to have completed WRT102, have at least a C in ECO303 and ECO305, and be a graduating senior.

As an economics student, you have taken several courses in economics, you have also read about  economics (you have, at least, read a few textbooks) and, hence, you are expected to know a few   things about economics. More to the point, you are expected to write as an economics student and not as the ‘average person on the street. ’ If writing is a skill, writing like an economist is a specialized skill. It forces you to find out what others before you have done; to do hard thinking; to gain clarity on ideas and concepts and how they relate; and to choose carefully the models, data, and statistics that you will use. As a professional economist you will have to write quite a lot, and it is important you learn a few rules on how to do it well if you want your audience to sit up and pay attention to what you have to say. This course will allow you to learn these fundamental rules through practice. It will also provide you the opportunity to write a paper that you can present as a writing sample in your job search, for example.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES / COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course you should feel confident in your ability to put even the most quantitative kind of economic thinking into words, and get important ideas across with precision, in a clear, concise, structured and self-contained manner. Do not worry if you are not a native English speaker: while you are, of course, expected to pay attention to syntax, grammar and orthography, the focus of this course is on economical writing, that is, on how to think like an economist and be capable to express it in writing.

Whether your sole goal is to fulfill the Economics major requirement or whether you are more forward-looking, follow the guidelines that will be provided in this course and you will attain your goal. Guidelines will afford you a chance to learn a few rules that may be of great benefit to you in your future career.

And, remember, this course is a requirement for all Economics majors. If you do not obtain an “S” (for Satisfactory) in this course, you will not be able to graduate. Take this course and your work seriously, start working from the beginning of the semester, follow guidelines, and you will have no problem in fulfilling this requirement successfully. It is what we all want.

COURSE OUTLINE

You will be required to present three documents or deliverables: Proposal, First Draft, and Final Version of your paper. Check the table below for deadlines and target length for each deliverable. You must accompany each deliverable with a Progress Report (PR). A PR is a separate document that states, concisely but clearly, the work you have done, how you have gone about it, what difficulties you have encountered, how you have handled them, and why you have decided to proceed the way you have. Each PR, except the first one (accompanying your Proposal), must include our feedback to your previous deliverable (copy and paste it in your PR) AND explain the additions and changes you have made since; which of our suggestions have been incorporated and which not and why. There is no blueprint for a PR: think of it as a log of your thinking process and your work, the  ‘backstage’ of your research.

Please, check the Documents section of Blackboard for a document containing the first set of guidelines for your Proposal. These guidelines explain what your Proposal must look like and the elements it should contain. After you have submitted your Proposal, I will again post two sets of guidelines: one for your First Draft and one for the Final Version of your paper.

As of now, please check the table below and take note of the due date for each deliverable. Plan accordingly and determine how you will integrate research and writing tasks into your personal and professional schedule. Bad time management will not be accepted as an excuse for late  submissions.

Week	Day	Deliverable	Target Length
4	Monday, Sep 23	Proposal and its Progress Report	Proposal: At least one page, plus one page for references (in ONE document). Progress Report: At most one page.
9	Monday, Nov 4	First Draft and its Progress Report (include previous feedback)	First Draft: About five pages, plus one cover page, plus one page for references (all in ONE document). Progress Report: At most one page + previous feedback
14	Monday, Dec 9	Final Version and its Progress Report (include previous feedback)	Final Version: About ten pages, plus one cover page, plus one page for references (all in ONE document). Progress Report: At most one page + previous feedback

Present each deliverable as a single pdf document and create a separate pdf for your Progress

Report. Choose the font Times New Roman  12pt for all your text. Pages must be double spaced and have normal margins.

⇨ Failure to fulfill requirements will result on your deliverable not being accepted. Be smart, READ and FOLLOW instructions.

⇨ Your submission will be INCOMPLETE if you fail to submit a PR or to include our    feedback to your prior deliverable. Incomplete submissions will NOT BE ACCEPTED and, hence, WILL NOT BE GRADED.

COURSE MATERIALS

This course does not require you to use a textbook or any other reference material beyond the three sets of guidelines I will post. However, at any stage of our course (and your academic or professional career), you may want to consult either one of these two classics. Both are extremely useful for writing essays, articles, papers and thesis in economics:

•     Greenlaw, S. (2006), Doing Economics: A Guide to Understanding and Carrying Out Economic Research. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York.

McCloskey, D. (2000), Economical Writing, 2nd  edition, Waveland Press, Inc. And for any type of writing, you can always rely on:

Strunk, W. and E.B. White (1979), The Elements of Style, 3rd  edition, New York, Macmillan.

I will post three sets of Guidelines, one per deliverable, on the Documents section of our course   Blackboard. These Guidelines will explain what elements each deliverable should contain and will also guide you on how to approach the work you need to do. Follow these Guidelines and you should be fine.

The Guidelines for your First Draft will contain several links to sample papers, authored by both undergraduate students and academics, published in economic scholarly journals that you can use

as models for your own paper. You are NOT expected to actually read these papers or to

understand and analyze them: these papers are to illustrate your Guidelines, and you will just use them as samples. When you look at these papers, pay attention to their overall structure; their

sections and how they are organized; titles of the sections; key words; citation and referencing; etc. Connect all this to instructions in your Guidelines. Likewise, later on, for your Final Version, you  will observe the style. in which these papers are written, how paragraphs flow from one to the next, how information is conveyed, etc. and connect this to instructions in the Guidelines for your Final Version.

COURSE POLICY

All course materials and all class-related announcements will always be posted on Blackboard.

Please, check the course page regularly and keep current. Read Guidelines carefully and follow them for each deliverable. Submit your deliverables on time. No deliverables will be accepted after the due date. No exceptions.

Always use your stonybrook.edu email address to communicate with us . Please, always include your full name and your Stony Brook ID number in your message. We will do our very best to respond to your emails as soon as possible, but please allow between 24-48 hours for a reply, as this is a very large class. Plan on checking our course page regularly for course related messages (at least twice per week and, certainly, shortly before and shortly after due dates!).

⇨ There is nothing we can do if you do not check your stonybrook.edu inbox and the course site regularly and, as a result, you miss an important announcement, communication or deadline.