Project Name: “Help an instructor in grading…”
Context: In a “Principles of Microeconomics” class, the instructor, Professor Smith Jones, assigned an online “Essay” to be submitted and asked the students to analyze an “article” on the minimum wage policies written by Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis. The minimum wage topic was also explained by the class’s “textbook” (i.e., Principles of Microeconomics, Third Edition, by OpenStax). Professor Jones instructed his students to analyze the article under consideration with respect to the
textbook materials, and then write their inputs and submit it in a Dropbox. He provided specific grading rubrics for the minimum wage essay and informed the students on how he would be grading their work. One of his students, Susan Kalanti, has submitted her essay and named it “Susan’s Essay.”
Your job:
Your job in this project is to help Professor Jones to fairly grade the essay named “Susan’s Essay” following the rubrics that he has provided.
Below, you find three PDF files that show the professor’s assignment, the published article, and the student’s essay.
• The-Assignment.pdf (By Professor Smith Jones, which has the rubrics provided by Professor Smith Jones that Susan should follow in her essay)
• The-Article.pdf (By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis, the article’s writers)
• Susan-Essay.pdf (Susan’s Essay, By Susan Kalanti, the student)
Project Instructions:
Do not grade Susan’s Essay. You only help the instructor grade Susan’s Essay, which means:
You do not give your “general” feedback(s) on Susan’s Essay, like if her work is well done or not!
You need to check the validity of Susan’s statements and claims in her essay, statement by statement.
Do not miss a single claim or statement in Susan’s essay. (p.s., a certain “claim” made by Susan may involve multiple “statements”). For example, if Susan says that the textbook is in favor of increasing the minimum wage, you have to check if the textbook is actually in favor of raising the minimum wage or not. Another example, if Susan says that the minimum wage has to go down, then you need to evaluate her claim using your read from the article, and from the textbook.
IMPORTANT: Be reliant on the grading rubrics in Professor Smith Jones’s assignment.
When you help the professor by analyzing Susan’s Essay, statement by statement, check whether each statement or claim made by Susan is true, false, valid, invalid, logical, or illogical (with explanation).
IMPORTANT: Write each statement or claim you analyze (from Susan’s Essay) in bold text (bullet points), and below it, write your analysis in non-bold text. This requirement is strictly enforced.
Make sure you do not miss analyzing and explaining any statements and claims made by Susan.
MOST IMPORTANT: You will need to carefully read the “article on the minimum wage policy” and the “textbook on the policy in which the minimum wage is an example for” in order to validate Susan’s arguments in her essay. It is essential here that you use the exact vocabulary provided in the textbook when checking if this type of intervention always makes a difference in the market, or not! In here, ask yourself, the minimum wage is an application of what type of government intervention as explained in the textbook? And under what condition(s) this policy can make a difference in the market?
“Actual minimum” of 300 words is required in your project. Important: The actual minimum is the minimum number of words of your analysis, excluding statements from Susan’s Essay you rewrite in your submission. In other words, copying the statements from Susan’s Essay in your submission doesn’t count when counting the number of words in your project.
Again, you do not need to work on this project in an essay writing format; you just list – in Bold – the statements and/or claims made by Susan and write your analysis under each statement/claim. Bullet points are fine, too.
