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Extra Credit Opportunity
Receive up to five points added to your final grade
point average*
Select one of the following books, read it during the
remainder of the semester, and submit a written paper no later than
the beginning of class on March 1.
- Free to Choose, Milton and Rose Friedman (Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, New York, NY 10017)
- Eat the Rich, A Treatise on Economics, P. J.
O'Rourke (Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY 10003)
- The Invisible Heart, An Economic Romance, Russell
Roberts, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA)
- Freakonomics, A Rogue Economist Explores the
Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Wm
Morrow, 2005, New York, NY)
Guidelines
Format:
- The paper must be between 3 and 4 pages in length (no
more than 1" margins, double spaced).
- The paper must be produced and printed using a word
processor or typewriter.
- The paper must be properly formatted with citations
and footnotes.
- Grammar and spelling count!
Content:
- Do not simply write a "book report".
- For guidelines on writing a term paper go to:
www.csupomona.edu/~ecgibson/writing/term_paper.html
- Discuss the ideas presented in the book and relate
them to the economic concepts you have learned in this course. It does
not matter whether you agree or disagree with the author, in general, or
just on particular points. What matters is that you discuss what you
gained from reading the book in terms of new knowledge or understanding
(or lack thereof) and support your conclusions and opinions using the
knowledge gained from this course in justifying your agreement or
disagreement with the author.
Hints: There may be concepts you have been exposed to in
this course that you do not agree with but the author of the book
supports. That is fine. The reverse may also be true. Just be sure you
present a legitimate argument and support it. For instance, I am not
interested in reading "__________________ believes in free trade and I
agree."; "__________________ says that _____________ and I think he/she is
right." Rather, what I will be looking for is "_____________ states that
we are better off with free trade than without and I agree (or disagree)
because...".
* This means that if your overall average for the course
is 88 ( a "B") and you receive the maximum 5 points for the report, your
final grade will be 93 and you will receive an "A" for the course. |
