You are to critically analyze or expand on the economic content of an article from The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times that has been published in the past two months. Demonstrate your understanding of your readings of this concept, making clear how you would interpret it, how you would use it, what it is important for, and any other relevant issues. Make clear the relevance of your concept to an article you picked by connecting them, i.e., explain point(s) made by the author using the concept. Be careful to explain statements you make—don’t simply make assertions you don’t support. The statement(s) you focus on from the article will generally report that “something happened”; your task is to fully explain why using your concept. Don’t simply use the article to illustrate your concept—your task is to explain the article using the concept.
- The first sentence of your 2 to 3-page paper, (excluding any graphs), should state which analytical concept you have selected.
- State source of article: title of newspaper or magazine, author, page, date—early in paper, somewhere in the first paragraph.
- After the Concept Review, begin the second part of your paper by identifying exactly what it is the highlighted portion of your article that you will be explaining. Thus, please begin second part of paper by filling in the statement “EXPLAIN WHY …………” so that I will know exactly what you are attempting to explain the why of.