Assignment
Write 2 pages Analysis for this article: "Global debt now worse than before financial crisis, says IMF"
Purpose: You will need to locate, read, analyze, summarize, and react to an economically related news article. My goal is to have you think about the specific concepts, principles, and theories that you are learning in class and apply them to real-life events.
Format: First, You will need to find an economic news event that relates to the specific economic topic we cover in class. Once you have found an article, you need to do three things. You will summarize, relate, and react to what you have read.
Second, In a few paragraphs, summarize the news event. Be certain to include a topic sentence. You need to mention the author's main ideas and include facts, statistics, examples, and/or quotes to describe the main ideas.
Third, in a few paragraphs, you need to address the following two sections:
- First, you must identify and define the concept(s). Explain what the concept is and how it is applied in the article. Be certain to use the concept correctly. Relate the concept to what we are studying in Economics. This is what I am assessing. Discuss how this concept is used in the article.
- You need to react to what you have read. Reacting means to form an opinion (evaluation) of it. Some of the questions you might answer in your reaction are: Did you like or dislike the article? Whom does this article impact, and how are they affected by its contents? How does this article apply to your family or you? What did you learn that was new, interesting, or significant? If the article involves a change in policy, you should discuss the fairness issue. This section is very important to me. It lets me observe how you comprehending what we are learning.