Evaluating the Written Work of Others: One Way Economics Students Can Learn to Write

Harlan M. Smith II, Amy Broughton and Jaime Copley

The Journal of Economic Education, 2005, vol. 36, issue 1, 43-58

Abstract: The authors present a series of writing assignments that teaches students how to evaluate and critique the written economic work of others. The foundation text is McCloskey's (2000) Economical Writing. The students' dialogues with McCloskey, with each other, and with the authors of the pieces they evaluate sharpen their understanding of, and ability to use, language as an instrument of economic thought. Interviews with former students identify specific benefits from the student perspective of this approach. The authors show how the assignment series can be modified in several ways and how the general approach, as well as the foundation text, can be used in different economics courses.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.3200/JECE.36.1.43-58

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